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John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$731k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$400,000
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$71M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Skidmore College$400,00010%
St Michael's Home Inc$250,00016%
Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund Incorporated$25,0001n/a
The Trustees of Anatolia College$25,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$5,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$5,00010%
Iowa Architectural Foundation$1,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSkidmore College: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Michael's Home Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Anatolia College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Architectural Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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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 8.

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About John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation

How much does John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation give?
John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $731,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Human Services (35%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Skidmore College ($400k), St Michael's Home Inc ($250k), Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund Incorporated ($25k).
Does John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation based?
John and Mary Pappajohn Family Foundation 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 10 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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