· Private foundation
Gethmann Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST MARSHALL BOOSTER CLUB | $13,000 |
| DES MOINES AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| COE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MIDWEST | $2,000 |
| IDEAL FIREFIGHTER RELIEF ASSOCIATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +1%- RARETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +55%
- PJPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 46one grant, 2024 · $10k
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $6k
- WCWARTBURG COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The iowa gold star military museum's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. the museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate…
Provide educational scholarships
To Promote Premier Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success of Idaho FFA Members and Agricultural Education Students by Providing Strategic Financial Resources for the Idaho FFA Association
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The mission of the cambridge campus foundation fulfills the potential of the students in east central minnesota, by expanding their opportunities and broadening their horizons with an affordable education and promise of a strong future.
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
To facilitate the lifetime connection of alumni, students, and friends with iowa state university and each other.
To expand educational opportunities and enhance academic excellence at ridgewater college by providing financial and community support. the foundation accomplishes its mission through its annual and capital fundraising campaigns, which…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 41 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 EAST MARSHALL BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALLTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDEAL FIREFIGHTER RELIEF ASSN ↗
- Who funds HOP ON A CURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gethmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gethmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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