· Private foundation
Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $794k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hampton-Dumont Scholarship Fund (includes CAL students) | $50,000 |
| City of Rowan (Iowa River Players Comm. Theater) | $30,000 |
| West Fork Scholarship Fund | $30,000 |
| Belmond Community Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| Iowa Ronald McDonald House Charities (Governor's Charity Steer Show) | $25,000 |
| Relay for Life of Franklin County (American Cancer Society) | $25,000 |
| Sheffield Care Center | $24,000 |
| Sheffield Betterment Foundation | $24,000 |
| West Fork CSD (HS) | $22,500 |
| Thornton Volunteer Fire Assoc. Inc. | $21,000 |
| Zion Reformed Church | $20,000 |
| First Reformed Church | $20,000 |
| Latimer Rural Fire Department | $20,000 |
| First Reformed Church | $20,000 |
| Franklin Wellness Center (Franklin County R.A.C.E.) | $20,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSheffield Care Center2× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +17%
- BFBELMOND FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +73%
- WFWest Fork Food Pantry2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- HSHAMPTON-DUMONT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -26% · 40% of their budget
- HCHampton-Dumont CSD Elementaryone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MNMercyOne North IA Foundationone grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Create opportunities for belmond and it's citizens to be a better community
Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.
County museum- mission is to derive and maintain the historical accuracy of floyd county, ia
To provide financial support to st francis memorial hospital
Medical screening
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 113 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HAMPTON-DUMONT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Sheffield Care Center ↗
- Who funds BELMOND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELMOND FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Access Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BELMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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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