Iowa · Community foundation
Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation
Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation inspires philanthropy through effective granting, responsible investing, and collaborative partnering to emplower inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable communities and nonprofits.
- $844k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $337k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,732
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,188
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 28 | $337k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $252k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $206k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $278k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $765k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $613k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion County Public Health | $503,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation | $213,466 | 5 | 12% |
| Orchard Place | $203,435 | 2 | 1% |
| Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr | $182,995 | 5 | 60% |
| Mayflower Homes Inc | $116,036 | 5 | 0% |
| Grinnell Community Day Care | $84,013 | 4 | 4% |
| Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc | $76,099 | 1 | 1% |
| Grinnell Regional Medical Center | $68,911 | 5 | 0% |
| Grinnell-Newburg School Disct | $68,716 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Montezuma | $64,403 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion County Public Health | $503,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation | $213,466 | 5 | 12% |
| Orchard Place | $203,435 | 2 | 1% |
| Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr | $182,995 | 5 | 60% |
| Mayflower Homes Inc | $116,036 | 5 | 0% |
| Grinnell Community Day Care | $84,013 | 4 | 4% |
| Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc | $76,099 | 1 | 1% |
| Grinnell Regional Medical Center | $68,911 | 5 | 0% |
| Grinnell-Newburg School Disct | $68,716 | 6 | n/a |
| City of Montezuma | $64,403 | 4 | n/a |
| Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation | $59,180 | 5 | 2% |
| Brooklyn Community Development | $53,538 | 6 | 4% |
| Jasper County Extension | $49,602 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Grinnell | $49,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Pella Christian Grade School | $48,167 | 2 | 1% |
| St Francis Manor Foundation | $43,354 | 4 | 17% |
| Adopt a Family Local Food Connection | $35,798 | 5 | 28% |
| General Council on Finance & Admins of the United | $34,316 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Deep River | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Town of Guernsey | $27,288 | 4 | n/a |
| United Church of Christ Board | $23,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart Church | $22,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Poweshiek County Extension | $21,059 | 3 | n/a |
| Poweshiek County | $19,750 | 3 | n/a |
| American Legion | $19,215 | 2 | n/a |
| Hartwick Volunteer Fire Department Inc | $19,029 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Brooklyn Iowa | $18,450 | 3 | n/a |
| Montezuma Volunteer Firefighters Fundraising Association | $18,438 | 2 | n/a |
| Grinnell United Methodist Church | $17,786 | 2 | n/a |
| Poweshiek County Fair Foundation | $17,500 | 2 | 36% |
| Peck Child Development Center Inc | $17,200 | 2 | 2% |
| LINK Inc | $14,850 | 2 | 4% |
| Read 2 Lead | $11,660 | 2 | 10% |
| Ahrens Park Foundation | $11,500 | 1 | 1% |
| BGM Community School District | $11,500 | 1 | n/a |
| CSF of BGM Dollars for Scholars | $10,731 | 2 | n/a |
| Brooklyn Community Food Bank | $9,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Capstone Behavioral Healthcare Inc | $9,140 | 1 | 0% |
| Poweshiek Historical and Genealogical Society | $8,559 | 1 | n/a |
| Care Initiatives | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Searsboro Community Fire-Ems Department | $7,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Montezuma Community Development | $7,012 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Hartwick | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| BGm Community School District | $6,736 | 1 | n/a |
| Poweshiek Animal League Shelter | $6,708 | 1 | n/a |
| Brooklyn Public Library | $6,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Grinnell Historical Museum Society | $6,539 | 1 | 2% |
| Hartwick Fire Department | $6,511 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa Kitchen Inc | $6,508 | 1 | n/a |
| Poweshiek County Historical and Genealogical Society | $6,311 | 1 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamber of Commerce of Grinnell | $5,300 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: The Trustees of Grinnell College · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation · Brownell Family Foundation · Lsb Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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About Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation
- How much does Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation give?
- Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $337,215, out of $843,930 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Arts & Culture (13%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Marion County Public Health ($503k), Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation ($213k), Orchard Place ($203k).
- Does Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Trustees of Grinnell College, Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation based?
- Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation is based in IA.
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