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Iowa Council of Foundations

To strengthen and promote organized philanthropy in the state of iowa; to assist and educate its membership in order to promote and facilitate effective philanthropic grantmaking; and to provide a forum for the exchange of information on philanthropic programs and issues.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Iowa Council of Foundations’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Fdn Of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
0
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
1
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2025
$36k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$383k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$669kCommunity Improvement$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Okoboji Foundation$14,4002n/a

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Land O'Lakes Foundati…The Hws Charitable Fo…GreenState Credit Uni…Alliant Energy Founda…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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About Iowa Council of Foundations

How much does Iowa Council of Foundations give?
Iowa Council of Foundations reported 3 itemized grants totaling $36,000, out of $73,175 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Iowa Council of Foundations fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (98%), Community Improvement (2%).
Who are Iowa Council of Foundations's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Okoboji Foundation ($14k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa Council of Foundations?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Land O'Lakes Foundation, The Hws Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Iowa Council of Foundations based?
Iowa Council of Foundations 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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