How much does Iowa Women's Foundation give?

Iowa Women's Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $165,000, out of $304,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Iowa Women's Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Youth Development (18%), Education (13%).

Who are Iowa Women's Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc ($110k), Catherine McAuley Center Inc ($61k), Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc ($50k).

Does Iowa Women's Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Iowa Women's Foundation based?

Iowa Women's Foundation is based in IA.

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Iowa · Public charity

Iowa Women's Foundation

The IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION is committed to improving the lives of iowa's women and girls. We use research to uncover barriers to women's success as well as their greatest needs, and we invest our passion and resources accordingly.

$304k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2024: 11
Organizations funded FY2023: 64%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $165k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 23; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Iowa Women's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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	8	$165k	13%
FY2023	11	$180k	64%
FY2022	23	$355k	78%
FY2021	14	$136k	50%
FY2020	14	$116k	57%
FY2019	11	$100k	73%
FY2018	7	$70k	71%
FY2017	8	$71k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$428kYouth Development$211kEducation$155kHousing & Shelter$127kEmployment$100kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$28kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

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
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc	$110,000	7	0%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc	$61,485	5	1%
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Girls Incorporated of Sioux City	$50,000	2	3%
Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa	$48,800	4	14%
Hawkeye Community College Fdn	$45,000	3	1%
YWCA of Clinton Iowa	$44,000	3	1%
St Mark Youth Enrichment	$41,700	3	2%
Christian Community Development	$40,000	4	2%
Future Net Incorporated	$35,000	2	4%

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All grantees of Iowa Women's Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc	$110,000	7	0%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc	$61,485	5	1%
Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Girls Incorporated of Sioux City	$50,000	2	3%
Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa	$48,800	4	14%
Hawkeye Community College Fdn	$45,000	3	1%
YWCA of Clinton Iowa	$44,000	3	1%
St Mark Youth Enrichment	$41,700	3	2%
Christian Community Development	$40,000	4	2%
Future Net Incorporated	$35,000	2	4%
Homes of Oakridge Human Services	$35,000	2	1%
State University of Iowa Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
Women Food & Agriculture Network	$27,500	3	4%
Newbo City Market	$25,000	1	2%
Iowa City Sober Living	$25,000	1	n/a
Lake City Day Care Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Young Women's Resource Center	$25,000	1	2%
SCKIC Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Grin & Grow Ltd	$23,985	3	3%
Waypoint Services	$20,000	2	0%
Community Coordinated Child Care 4-C S Committee of Johnson County	$15,000	1	1%
Sumner Daycare & Learning Center Inc	$15,000	1	8%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Wayland Area Childcare Organization Organization	$10,000	1	9%
Little Knights Learning Center la Porte City Campus	$10,000	1	n/a
Latinas Latinos Al Exito Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Tanager Place	$10,000	1	0%
Community United Child Care Centers Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Little Charger Early Learning Center Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Little Knights Learning Center	$10,000	1	1%
Waverly Child Care & Preschool	$10,000	1	1%
Discoveries Learning Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Williamsburg Community Child Care Center	$10,000	1	1%
Micah House Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Mount Pleasant Community Childcare	$10,000	1	1%
City of Roland	$10,000	1	n/a
Carlisle United Methodist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Sprouts Early Learning Academy	$10,000	1	n/a
Heartland Family Service	$10,000	1	0%
Shooting Star Childcare	$10,000	1	n/a
Nisaa African Family Services	$10,000	1	n/a
Prk Williams Inc Dba to the Rescue	$10,000	1	n/a
Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Noble Initiative Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
University of Northern Iowa Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Ringgold County Child Care Center	$10,000	1	1%
Linking Families & Communities	$10,000	1	2%
Refugee & Immigrant Voices in Action	$9,435	1	1%
Sunflower Childcare Center Inc	$9,000	1	2%
Domestic Violence Intervention Program	$9,000	1	1%
Opening Doors	$8,000	1	1%
Lil Wildcat Education Center Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Western Home Services Inc	$8,000	1	0%
The Crittenton Center	$7,560	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa	$7,500	1	0%
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Horizons a Family Service Alliance	$7,000	1	0%
Young Men's Christian Association	$6,500	1	0%
Leadher	$6,485	1	10%
United Way Quad Cities	$6,485	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Iowa Women's Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 51.

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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.

Delta Dental of Iowa FoundationIA43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · GreenState Credit Union · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · United Way of Central Iowa · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Lsb 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.

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About Iowa Women's Foundation

How much does Iowa Women's Foundation give?: Iowa Women's Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $165,000, out of $304,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Iowa Women's Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Youth Development (18%), Education (13%).
Who are Iowa Women's Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc ($110k), Catherine McAuley Center Inc ($61k), Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates Inc ($50k).
Does Iowa Women's Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Iowa Women's Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
Where is Iowa Women's Foundation based?: Iowa Women's Foundation is based in IA.