Iowa · Public charity
Great Outdoors Foundation
Advance conservation through innovation, collaboration, and stewardship.
- $428k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $152,101
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Great Outdoors Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 3 | $427k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $390k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $1.7M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $604k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $20M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $144k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $640k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Foundation | $547,476 | 1 | 2% |
| Polk County Iowa | $484,726 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Johnston | $225,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Great Outdoors Iowa | $150,000 | 1 | 49% |
| City of Windsor Heights | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa Wildlife Federation | $26,925 | 1 | 23% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc
How this is measured
About Great Outdoors Foundation
- How much does Great Outdoors Foundation give?
- Great Outdoors Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $428,101 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Great Outdoors Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (87%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Animals (3%).
- Who are Great Outdoors Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: MidAmerican Energy Foundation ($547k), Polk County Iowa ($485k), City of Johnston ($225k).
- Does Great Outdoors Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Great Outdoors Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc.
- Where is Great Outdoors Foundation based?
- Great Outdoors Foundation is based in IA.
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