Iowa · Public charity
Housing Fund for Linn County
The orginization is dedicated to improving quality of life by offering innovative and flexible funding in order to expand affordable housing opportunities within linn county, iowa.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $735k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $113,295
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $204,364
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Housing Fund for Linn County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 7 | $735k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $514k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.3M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $595k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $285k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $247k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $132k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew 25 | $2,163,579 | 6 | 37% |
| Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc | $568,319 | 9 | 5% |
| Neighborhood Finance Corporation | $531,336 | 3 | 3% |
| Waypoint Services | $470,795 | 9 | 1% |
| East Central Iowa Council of Governments | $339,021 | 4 | n/a |
| Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity | $298,318 | 9 | 3% |
| Hope Community Development Assoc | $171,406 | 7 | 7% |
| Catherine McAuley Center Inc | $131,273 | 6 | 1% |
| Waterloo Housing Trust Fund | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Affordable Housing Network Inc | $69,932 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew 25 | $2,163,579 | 6 | 37% |
| Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc | $568,319 | 9 | 5% |
| Neighborhood Finance Corporation | $531,336 | 3 | 3% |
| Waypoint Services | $470,795 | 9 | 1% |
| East Central Iowa Council of Governments | $339,021 | 4 | n/a |
| Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity | $298,318 | 9 | 3% |
| Hope Community Development Assoc | $171,406 | 7 | 7% |
| Catherine McAuley Center Inc | $131,273 | 6 | 1% |
| Waterloo Housing Trust Fund | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Affordable Housing Network Inc | $69,932 | 4 | 0% |
| L&M Construction | $49,275 | 2 | n/a |
| Xtreme Home Repair | $47,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation 2 Inc | $42,084 | 1 | 0% |
| Connerly Construction LLC | $38,712 | 3 | n/a |
| C&R Constructions | $32,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Five Seasons Senior Housing | $30,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Marion Economic Development Company | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Cb Cedar Rapids Housing LLP | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central City Iowa | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Four Star Investments | $18,372 | 1 | n/a |
| Ace Contracting | $16,905 | 2 | n/a |
| Kirvan Enterprises LLC | $16,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Freese Well Drilling | $13,565 | 1 | n/a |
| Nfc Cedar Rapids LLC | $11,994 | 1 | n/a |
| Marion Senior Living Community | $11,025 | 1 | 27% |
| Doug Gire Construction | $7,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Neema-Corporation | $7,379 | 1 | n/a |
| Reece Heating Colling & Plumbing | $5,808 | 1 | n/a |
| Steve's Heating Ac & Electrical | $5,185 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Housing Fund for Linn County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Mercy Medical Center · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · East Central Iowa Housing Trust Fun · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation
How this is measured
About Housing Fund for Linn County
- How much does Housing Fund for Linn County give?
- Housing Fund for Linn County reported 7 itemized grants totaling $734,636, out of $1,282,681 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Housing Fund for Linn County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (83%), Human Services (7%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Housing Fund for Linn County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Matthew 25 ($2.2M), Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc ($568k), Neighborhood Finance Corporation ($531k).
- Does Housing Fund for Linn County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Housing Fund for Linn County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mercy Medical Center, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Housing Fund for Linn County based?
- Housing Fund for Linn County is based in IA.
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