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Greenstate Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$876k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
62
Grants FY2024
208
Organizations funded FY2023
92%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
114 to 208
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$543k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 92% of the organizations Greenstate Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving62$876k89%
FY2023208$1.4M92%
FY2022114$722kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MHuman Services$336kCommunity Improvement$280kEducation$188kFood & Nutrition$161kYouth Development$126kEnvironment$123kHealth$98kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 101 grantees
All grantees of Greenstate Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Community Development$75,00013%
Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation$75,00012%
Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County$52,50031%
Hope Ministries$50,00130%
Dubuque Dream Center Inc$50,00022%
Americans for Independent Living$50,00014%
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District$50,00022%
Multicultural Family Center$50,000127%
Falo- Friendsamigosles Amisos Amigos of the Iowa Commissions$40,0002n/a
United Ways of Iowa$40,00021%
Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc$35,00011%
Iowa Center for Economic Success$30,00021%
The Trinity Foundation$30,0003n/a
Cedar Rapids Community School District Foundation$30,00016%
Humility Homes and Services Inc$27,50011%
Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc$25,00011%
International Rescue Committee INC$25,00010%
Nahant Marsh Education Center$25,00011%
Peoples Community Health Clinic Inc$25,00020%
Job Rides Inc$25,00017%
100 in 24 of Cedar Rapids$25,0001n/a
Trees Forever Inc$25,00011%
West Suburban Community Pantry Inc$25,00010%
360 Youth Services$25,00010%
Anawim Housing Inc$25,00010%
Genesis Health Services Foundation$25,00011%
Multicultural Development Center of Iowa$22,50026%
Iowa Legal Aid$20,00010%
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice$20,00012%
Homes of Oakridge Human Services$20,00011%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc$20,00010%
Connectcr Inc$20,00011%
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc$20,00020%
Convivium Urban Farmstead$18,00018%
Table to Table Food Distribution Network$17,50010%
Indian Creek Nature Center$17,50011%
Iowa Environmental Council$17,00011%
Proteus Inc$15,00010%
Ellipsis Inc$15,00010%
Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center Inc$15,00014%
Meals From the Heartland Inc$15,00010%
Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry$15,00011%
Hand in Hand$15,00011%
Living Lands & Waters$15,00011%
One Economy Financial Development Corp$15,00016%
The Fountain of Youth Program$15,00023%
Dalla Terra Ranch Foundation$15,00013%
Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc$14,20010%
Urban Dreams$10,00011%
Zach Johnson Foundation$10,00011%
Forest Avenue Outreach$10,00013%
Christian Culture Community$10,00013%
Refugee & Immigrant Voices in Action$10,00010%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines$10,00010%
Lba Foundation$10,0001n/a
Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation Inc$10,00020%
One City United$10,00022%
Renew Project$10,00014%
South District Neighborhood Association$10,0002n/a
Bridge Communities Inc$10,00010%
Leader Valley Foundation$10,00012%
By Degrees Foundation$10,00011%
Des Moines Refugee Support$8,00013%
Kapur and Sons Foundation Inc$7,5002n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley$7,00010%
The Morton Arboretum$6,05010%
Tanager Place$6,00020%
Friendship Community Project$5,5002n/a
Black Excellence Inc$5,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Elmhurst Walk-In Assistance Network$5,00012%
Coralville Community Food Pantry$5,00010%
Allies for Community Business Inc$5,00010%
Shalom Community Impact Center$5,0001n/a
Joppa$5,00010%
Food Bank of Iowa$5,00010%
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc$5,00010%
Job Foundation$5,00011%
St Luke's Health Care Foundation$5,00010%
Latinos Unidos of Iowa$5,0001n/a
Iowa Women's Foundation$5,00010%
Kirkwood Community College Foundation$5,00010%
Camp Fire Heart of Iowa$3,00010%
Rebuilding Together Stephenson County Incorporated$2,50013%
Athletics for Education and Success Inc$2,50011%
The Des Moines Urban Experience$2,50012%
Latinas Latinos Al Exito Inc$2,50011%
Matthew 25$2,50010%
Horizons a Family Service Alliance$2,50010%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$2,50010%
Orchard Place$2,50010%
Friends of Coralville Lake$2,50014%
Kinnas House of Love Inc$2,0001n/a
Family Resources Inc$1,50010%
Heartland Youth for Christ Inc$1,50010%
Czech Village Association Inc$1,5001n/a
Iowa Rivers Revival$1,50012%
4 All Kids$1,0001n/a
Des Moines African Youth Festival Awards$1,0001n/a
Iowa City Free Medical Clinic$1,00010%
Washington for Justice$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 259 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Greenstate Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Community Development: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCedar Rapids Public Library Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNeighborhood Centers of Johnson County: $52,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHope Ministries: $50,001 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDubuque Dream Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAmericans for Independent Living: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetThe Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMulticultural Family Center: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetUnited Ways of Iowa: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIowa Center for Economic Success: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCedar Rapids Community School District Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHumility Homes and Services Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWillis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNahant Marsh Education Center: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPeoples Community Health Clinic Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJob Rides Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTrees Forever Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWest Suburban Community Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget360 Youth Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAnawim Housing Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGenesis Health Services Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMulticultural Development Center of Iowa: $22,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Migrant Movement for Justice: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHomes of Oakridge Human Services: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouth and Shelter Services Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnectcr Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConvivium Urban Farmstead: $18,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTable to Table Food Distribution Network: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndian Creek Nature Center: $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIowa Environmental Council: $17,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetProteus Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEllipsis Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJesse Cosby Neighborhood Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMeals From the Heartland Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElmhurst-Yorkfield Food Pantry: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHand in Hand: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLiving Lands & Waters: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOne Economy Financial Development Corp: $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Fountain of Youth Program: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDalla Terra Ranch Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc: $14,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Dreams: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZach Johnson Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetForest Avenue Outreach: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 85.

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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.

GreenState Credit UnionIA95× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way of Central Iowa · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Lsb Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Greenstate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Greenstate Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Greenstate Foundation

How much does Greenstate Foundation give?
Greenstate Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $875,833 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 114 and 208 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Greenstate Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (43%), Human Services (11%), Community Improvement (9%).
Who are Greenstate Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Christian Community Development ($75k), Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation ($75k), Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County ($53k).
Does Greenstate Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Greenstate Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greenstate Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GreenState Credit Union, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
Where is Greenstate Foundation based?
Greenstate Foundation is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 360 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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