Skip to content
Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner at a glance

· Private foundation

Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$624k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$933kAnimals$496kArts & Culture$451kReligion$342kEnvironment$337kPhilanthropy$331kHealth$188kPublic Benefit$186kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $303k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII$52,500
GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES$50,000
GRAY'S LAKE PARK PLAYGROUND AND SPRAYGROUND FUND$50,000
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII$50,000
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50,000
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL$25,000
DES MOINES UNIVERSITY$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND$25,000
BLANK PARK ZOO$25,000
SCATTERGOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL$25,000
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL$25,000
DES MOINES METRO OPERA$20,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES: $50k → 10%IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH CENTER: $10k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $250 → 10%BALANCE AUTISM: $1k → 10%THE HOMESTEAD: $1k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $25k → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL-DMARC: $10k → 10%PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $21k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $9k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $8k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
IA
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 59 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
35

Total granted

$3.4M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+33%

Still filing today

59%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $444k · revenue +20%
  • ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII
    8× · 2017–2024 · $408k · revenue +99%
  • DM
    DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • DM
    DES MOINES WATER WORKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $55k
  • RH
    ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -25%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DES MOINES PARKS
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

—
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
3
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
4
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.

—
5
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

—
6
Iowa City Unesco City of Literature

To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…

Education
7
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
8
State University of Iowa Foundation

The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…

Education
9
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
10
Iowa Association of Business and Industry

To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.

—
11
Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice.

—
12
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; the most unlike its peers is Latino Political Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 99 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $300,090 · OtherCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCENTRAL IOWA WATERWORKS TRAIL PROJECT: $230,000 · OtherCENTRAL IOWA WATERWORKS TRAIL PROJECTDES MOINES UNIVERSITY: $101,500 · OtherBERGMAN ACADEMY: $100,000 · OtherIOWA HOMELESS YOUTH SHELTERS: $81,500 · OtherCARLETON COLLEGE ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND: $80,000 · OtherDES MOINES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherIOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL: $118,070 · OtherIOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCILORCHARD PLACE: $111,190 · OtherORCHARD PLACE+55 more: $825,306 · Other+55 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $443,500 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSIT…Simpson College: $61,500 · EducationSimpson CollegeROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30,500 · EducationROOSEVELT HIGH …+2 more: $10,100 · EducationASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $407,500 · AnimalsASSISTANCE DO…BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · AnimalsBLANK PARK ZO…+1 more: $1,750 · AnimalsDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES …MAINFRAME STUDIOS: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMAINFRAME S…Edmundson Art Foundation Inc: $73,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson A…NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CI…+6 more: $36,150 · Arts & Culture+6 moreCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $140,000 · PhilanthropyDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $26,000 · PhilanthropyWorld Food Prize Foundation: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesURBAN DREAMS: $46,000 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,250 · Human ServicesIowa Center for Children's Justice: $85,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Civil RightsONE IOWA: $15,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $6,500 · Civil Rights+2 more: $6,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,022,656Education$545,600Animals$484,250Arts & Culture$386,150Philanthropy$197,000Human Services$169,250Civil Rights$162,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $443,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $407,500 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL: $118,070 over 7y, 34% of budgetORCHARD PLACE: $111,190 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBERGMAN ACADEMY: $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetIowa Center for Children's Justice: $85,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $73,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSimpson College: $61,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $51,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA: $50,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetURBAN DREAMS: $46,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER: $26,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSING TRUST FUND: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $18,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLATINO POLITICAL NETWORK: $17,500 over 2y, 58% of budgetONE IOWA: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER AT SIXTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEWSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOYT SHERMAN PLACE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIDER BASEBALL CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTHY BIRTH DAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKATE DSM: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
  • Who funds IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
  • Who funds BERGMAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Center for Children's Justice ↗
  • Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Simpson College ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds URBAN DREAMS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗

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.

Prairie Meadows Race …Community Fdn of Grea…Meredith Corporation …Bookey Family Foundat…EMC Insurance Foundat…Ita Group FoundationThe Merchants Bonding…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Kyle J & Sharon Kraus…United Way of Central…William C Knapp Chari…The West Bancorporati…
Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA68.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home