How much does Iowa West Foundation give?

Iowa West Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $15,877,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 100 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Iowa West Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Public Benefit (17%), Community Improvement (14%).

Who are Iowa West Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City of Council Bluffs ($13M), Iowa Western Community College Foundation ($3.5M), Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact ($2.7M).

Does Iowa West Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Iowa West Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa West Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.

Where is Iowa West Foundation based?

Iowa West Foundation is based in IA.

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Iowa · Private foundation

Iowa West Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 134
Grants FY2024: 100
Organizations funded FY2023: 37%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,166,667
Organizations funded a year: 53 to 100; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $496M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Iowa West Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	95	$16M	31%
FY2023	100	$16M	37%
FY2022	84	$16M	40%
FY2021	74	$15M	45%
FY2020	53	$11M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$17MPublic Benefit$13MCommunity Improvement$11MArts & Culture$7.8MEnvironment$7.6MHuman Services$5.7MHousing & Shelter$3.7MPhilanthropy$3.0MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Council Bluffs	$12,673,671	5	n/a
Iowa Western Community College Foundation	$3,465,337	5	22%
Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact	$2,712,785	4	39%
Heartland Family Service	$2,625,336	5	3%
Council Bluffs Community School District	$2,525,137	5	n/a
United Way of the Midlands	$1,272,000	5	1%
Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc	$1,238,178	5	11%
Bluffs Arts Council	$998,843	5	12%
Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation	$985,000	5	7%
Family Inc	$895,335	5	14%

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All grantees of Iowa West Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Council Bluffs	$12,673,671	5	n/a
Iowa Western Community College Foundation	$3,465,337	5	22%
Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact	$2,712,785	4	39%
Heartland Family Service	$2,625,336	5	3%
Council Bluffs Community School District	$2,525,137	5	n/a
United Way of the Midlands	$1,272,000	5	1%
Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc	$1,238,178	5	11%
Bluffs Arts Council	$998,843	5	12%
Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation	$985,000	5	7%
Family Inc	$895,335	5	14%
Nebraska Enterprise Fund	$793,000	3	10%
Anawim Housing Inc	$732,694	3	5%
Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development	$712,500	5	32%
Ballet Nebraska	$687,500	5	13%
New Visions Homeless Services	$657,500	5	3%
Omaha Botanical Center Inc	$612,500	5	4%
Omaha Development Foundation	$600,000	4	68%
Habitat for Humanity of Council Bluffs Ia	$590,775	5	15%
Joslyn Art Museum	$575,000	3	1%
Omaha Zoo Foundation	$500,000	1	2%
Ignite Pathways	$500,000	1	n/a
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation	$500,000	1	1%
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc	$437,293	5	14%
Micah House Corporation	$420,000	5	3%
Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska	$365,000	5	2%
Pottawattamie Conservation Foundation	$325,000	3	45%
Christian Home Assn - Children's Square USA	$279,054	4	1%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc	$255,000	5	0%
Southwest Iowa Housing Trust Fund	$250,000	3	35%
YMCA of Greater Omaha	$242,000	3	1%
Food Bank for the Heartland	$230,000	2	0%
Advance Southwest Iowa Corporation	$225,000	1	25%
Omaha Children's Museum	$205,000	5	1%
Together Corp	$200,000	1	n/a
Neola Betterment Corporation	$200,000	3	67%
Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha	$200,000	1	2%
Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc	$195,000	2	2%
Vision Treynor Group Inc	$175,000	3	59%
National Arbor Day Foundation	$150,000	3	0%
Economic Empowerment Center	$125,000	3	2%
Threshold Coc	$112,500	2	1%
Omaha Symphony Association	$111,477	5	0%
Opera Omaha Inc	$110,000	5	0%
Dunlap Betterment Group	$109,587	1	n/a
Union Pacific Museum Association	$106,663	3	28%
The Durham Museum	$98,750	4	1%
Omaha Discovery Trust	$93,750	2	1%
Red Oak Grand Theatre Inc	$90,000	1	17%
Historic General Dodge House Inc	$89,905	3	24%
Omaha Theater Company	$87,977	4	1%
Food Bank of Iowa	$87,576	3	0%
Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation	$80,000	3	18%
Share Omaha	$80,000	3	5%
Centro Latino of Iowa	$75,000	1	33%
Council Bluffs Soccer Club	$75,000	1	6%
Audubon Recreation Foundation Inc	$75,000	2	6%
Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital Foundation	$74,641	2	3%
Impact Hill	$74,000	2	n/a
Project Harmony	$73,750	3	0%
Omaha Performing Arts Society	$71,000	3	0%
Omaha Conservatory of Music	$65,670	2	1%
Council Bluffs Public Library Foundation	$59,582	1	8%
Pottawattamie County Housing Trust Fund Inc	$59,425	3	11%
Nami Southwest Iowa	$57,118	2	16%
East Mills Child Care Solutions	$56,250	1	14%
Council Bluffs Convention and Visitors Bureau	$50,000	1	5%
Southwest Iowa Families Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Omaha Zoological Society	$50,000	1	0%
The Stanton Child Resource Center Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Lil Wildcat Education Center Inc	$50,000	2	10%
The Danish Immigrant Museum	$39,683	3	2%
Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Inc	$37,500	2	1%
Shift Atl Inc	$35,000	1	12%
Nishna Valley Family Young Mens Christian Association	$32,500	1	1%
Omaha by Design	$30,000	2	2%
City of Atlantic	$30,000	1	n/a
Nebraska Diaper Bank	$28,000	3	2%
Completely Kids	$27,500	3	0%
Roam Share	$25,996	2	1%
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum	$25,000	1	1%
DIBS for Kids	$25,000	1	5%
Angels Among US	$24,400	2	1%
Carson Business Club	$24,000	1	25%
Trivium Life Services	$21,370	1	0%
Macedonia Hamilton Development Corp	$20,400	2	10%
Four County Fair	$20,000	1	13%
The Performing Arts & Education Association of Southwest Iowa Inc	$16,450	1	6%
One Iowa	$16,000	1	2%
University of Nebraska Foundation	$15,470	1	0%
Mills County Public Health	$15,000	1	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$14,270	2	n/a
Omaha Sports Commission	$12,500	1	5%
Minden Community Club	$12,042	1	18%
Respect2	$10,000	1	3%
The Set Me Free Project	$10,000	1	4%
Merrymakers Association	$9,488	2	1%
Family Crisis Centers Inc	$8,500	1	0%
Macedonia Historical Preservation Society	$8,000	1	n/a
Nebraska Writers Collective	$7,400	1	1%
Iowa Environmental Council	$7,000	1	1%
Senior Futures Inc	$6,304	1	10%
The Wellbeing Partners	$5,000	1	0%
Loess Hills Maker Space	$2,006	1	n/a
Cass County Fair Association	$2,000	1	1%
Woodbine Fire and Rescue Association	$1,638	1	n/a
Community of Christ Caring Ministries	$1,228	1	n/a
Danish Mill Corporation	$750	1	0%
Shelby County Historical Society	$452	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($30M), not named here.

Iowa West Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 96.

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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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE82× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Community Foundation for Western Iowa · The Hawks Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Weitz Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation

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.

Compare Iowa West Foundation with peer funders

About Iowa West Foundation

How much does Iowa West Foundation give?: Iowa West Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $15,877,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 100 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Iowa West Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Public Benefit (17%), Community Improvement (14%).
Who are Iowa West Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City of Council Bluffs ($13M), Iowa Western Community College Foundation ($3.5M), Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact ($2.7M).
Does Iowa West Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Iowa West Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa West Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
Where is Iowa West Foundation based?: Iowa West Foundation is based in IA.