Iowa · Private foundation
Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 87
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $994k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton-Dumont Scholarship Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 40% |
| West Fork Scholarship Fund | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sheffield Care Center | $44,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Zion Reformed Church | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Belmond Community Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sheffield Betterment Foundation Corporation | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thornton Volunteer Fire Assoc. Inc. | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin County Fair Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Friends of Beeds Lake | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton-Dumont Scholarship Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 40% |
| West Fork Scholarship Fund | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sheffield Care Center | $44,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Zion Reformed Church | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Belmond Community Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sheffield Betterment Foundation Corporation | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thornton Volunteer Fire Assoc. Inc. | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Franklin County Fair Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Friends of Beeds Lake | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Franklin General Hospital Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Belmond Fire Dept Foundation | $17,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Access Incorporated | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Belmond Historical Society | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elderbridge Agency on Aging | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Fork Food Pantry | $11,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Meservey Fire & Rescue Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Apple Daycare Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Thornton Volunteer EMS Association | $9,195 | 1 | n/a |
| Caring Pregnancy Center Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Belmond Public Library Foundation | $7,290 | 2 | 16% |
| Wright County District Junior Fair | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Latinas Latinos Al Exito Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mission Thornton | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 89 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust
- How much does Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust give?
- Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust reported 87 itemized grants totaling $993,585, out of $1,202,045 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
- What does Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (5%), Religion (2%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
- Who are Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Hampton-Dumont Scholarship Fund ($100k), West Fork Scholarship Fund ($50k), Sheffield Care Center ($44k).
- Does Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation, Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust based?
- Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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