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Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,305
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,945
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterEducationAnimalsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$51k14%
FY20236$70k17%
FY20229$139k33%
FY20215$35k80%
FY20205$47k20%
FY201914$69k57%
FY20189$75k78%
FY20177$71kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$191kArts & Culture$144kCommunity Improvement$33kEnvironment$33kHousing & Shelter$29kPublic Benefit$29kHuman Services$26kEducation$22kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($553k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru?

Find your warmest path to Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru

How much does Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru give?
Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru reported 11 grants totaling $50,843 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (34%), Arts & Culture (26%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: State Center Fire and EMS Association Inc ($3k), Science Center of Iowa ($450), Friends of the Grimes Public Library ($225).
Does Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru based?
Ira B Kauffman Charitable Community Tru 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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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