Iowa · Private foundation
Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $95k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $97k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $118k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $134k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $100k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $93k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central College | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Simpson College | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($571k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Iowa College Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust
- How much does Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust give?
- Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust reported 16 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central College ($28k), Simpson College ($23k), Grand View University ($10k).
- Does Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Iowa College Foundation, Roy J Carver Charitable Trust.
- Where is Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust based?
- Gerald L Bauer Educational Trust is based in IA.
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