· Private foundation
Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICKENS FIRE AND RESCUE | $7,500 |
| DISCOVERY HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PALO ALTO COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HUDSONS CREW | $4,000 |
| SWEA CITY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| REGIONAL WELLNESS CENTER | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ROYAL AMERICAN LEGION POST #248 | $3,000 |
| CLAY COUNTY AG EXTENSION | $3,000 |
| EXCEL ESTHERVILLE | $3,000 |
| POCAHONTAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2025 · $13k
- PAPALO ALTO COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD2× · 2019–2025 · $10k
- AKAURELIA KIWANIS CLUB2× · 2019–2024 · $10k
Funded once
- LCLAKOTA COMMUNITY FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCHEROKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -77%
- EMEMMETSBURG MAIN STREET COMMUNITY THEATERone grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
To preserve and celebrate the rich story of northwest iowa's dutch immigrant history and culture.
To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Dchv connects modern generations to the past rural life & agricultural heritage in dakota cty through living history interpretation, education, & collection, preservation, & exhibition of information, objects & buildings.
Restoration and display of historical items pertinent to fremont county, iowa
Preservation of historical building which is part of the rich heritage of catholic roots in this part of keokuk county, iowa
County museum- mission is to derive and maintain the historical accuracy of floyd county, ia
Owns and operates the jasper county historical museum which collects, preserves and exhibits artifacts
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 160 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Arthur W & Audrey F Smith Foundatio · Good Neighbor Fund-Spirit Lake · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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