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Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$649k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation 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.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving13$33k0%
FY202413$33k0%
FY202316$33k0%
FY202217$34k0%
FY202116$33k6%
FY202014$34k0%
FY201917$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$233kHuman Services$11kArts & Culture$6kHealth$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Northern Iowa Foundation$40,00070%
Iowa State University Foundation$40,00070%
Coe College$35,00070%
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library Inc$4,00070%
Waypoint Services$4,00070%
The Salvation Army$3,5007n/a
Camp Courageous of Iowa$3,50070%
St Luke's Health Care Foundation$3,50070%
The Arc of East Central Iowa$3,50070%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Northern Iowa Foundation: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIowa State University Foundation: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCoe College: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Czech & Slovak Museum & Library Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWaypoint Services: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Courageous of Iowa: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Health Care Foundation: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of East Central Iowa: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…United Fire Group Fou…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Fire Group Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation

How much does Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation give?
Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $33,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Human Services (4%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Northern Iowa Foundation ($40k), Iowa State University Foundation ($40k), Coe College ($35k).
Does Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kansky Walter & Ida Char 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, United Fire Group Foundation, Network for Good.
Where is Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation based?
Kansky Walter & Ida Char Foundation is based in MO.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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