Iowa · Private foundation
Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 15 | $67k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $62k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $57k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $72k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $67k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $64k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $57k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $64k | 63% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Firefighters Association | $33,289 | 4 | n/a |
| Glidden Area Firefighters Association | $24,750 | 3 | 38% |
| Breda Day Care Center Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Kuemper Catholic School Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Iowa Lions Foundation | $9,895 | 1 | 2% |
| Sac County Conservation Foundation | $9,718 | 1 | 90% |
| Ralston Fire Fighters Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breda Firefighters Association | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mat Rats Wrestling Club | $7,500 | 1 | 14% |
| Sac Community Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia Firefighters Association | $33,289 | 4 | n/a |
| Glidden Area Firefighters Association | $24,750 | 3 | 38% |
| Breda Day Care Center Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Kuemper Catholic School Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Iowa Lions Foundation | $9,895 | 1 | 2% |
| Sac County Conservation Foundation | $9,718 | 1 | 90% |
| Ralston Fire Fighters Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Breda Firefighters Association | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mat Rats Wrestling Club | $7,500 | 1 | 14% |
| Sac Community Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Manning Betterment Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lakeview Iowa Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carroll Firefighters Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angels Forever Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sauk Rail Trail Association | $4,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake View Foundation | $3,961 | 1 | 1% |
| All Strings Attached | $3,950 | 1 | 3% |
| Maple River Area Park Inc | $3,892 | 1 | n/a |
| Opportunity Living | $3,796 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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.
Open a dossier: Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust · Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc · Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation give?
- Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $67,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (56%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arcadia Firefighters Association ($33k), Glidden Area Firefighters Association ($25k), Breda Day Care Center Inc ($22k).
- Does Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust, Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc, Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation based?
- Gilbert Renze Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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