Iowa · Private foundation
Hills Bancorporation Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $122k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Hills Bancorporation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $122k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $107k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $118k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $104k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $102k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $100k | 19% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Rapids Community School District Foundation | $175,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Filmscene | $55,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Eastern Iowa Arts Academy | $48,482 | 8 | 3% |
| Hawkeye Area Council Boy Scouts of America | $44,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Linn-Mar School Foundation | $35,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Linn County Historical Society | $32,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Faith Academy | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hills Bancorporation Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Midwestone Bank Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Greenstate Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hills Bancorporation Foundation
- How much does Hills Bancorporation Foundation give?
- Hills Bancorporation Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $121,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Hills Bancorporation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Arts & Culture (26%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Hills Bancorporation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cedar Rapids Community School District Foundation ($175k), Filmscene ($55k), Eastern Iowa Arts Academy ($48k).
- Does Hills Bancorporation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hills Bancorporation Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hills Bancorporation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GreenState Credit Union, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.
- Where is Hills Bancorporation Foundation based?
- Hills Bancorporation Foundation is based in IA.
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