Iowa · Private foundation
John M Campbell Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of John M Campbell Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John M Campbell Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $369k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $338k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $269k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $183k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $171k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $136k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Grinnell | $1,465,271 | 6 | n/a |
About John M Campbell Trust
- How much does John M Campbell Trust give?
- John M Campbell Trust reported 2 grants totaling $3,518,889 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John M Campbell Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Public Benefit (31%).
- Who are John M Campbell Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: City of Grinnell ($1.5M).
- Does John M Campbell Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John M Campbell Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is John M Campbell Trust based?
- John M Campbell Trust is based in IA.
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