· Private foundation
Kleckner 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAPAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $15,092 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $12,500 |
| DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL | $11,500 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $3,400 |
| DES MOINES ZEN CENTER | $3,128 |
| CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER SERVICES | $3,000 |
| RYUMONJI ZEN MONASTERY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| JAPAN SOCIETY OF IOWA | $1,877 |
| THE ANIME BUSINESS INTERVIEW SERIES | $1,350 |
| DOGEN INSTITUTE | $600 |
| IOWA HOMELESS YOUTH | $258 |
| DMACC FOUNDATION | $250 |
| HCM ASSOCIATION | $104 |
| YOUTH SHELTER SERVICES | $40 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA3× · 2023–2025 · $19k · revenue +8%
- JAJAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF IOWA INC TANAKA3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +49%
- DFDMACC FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- JFJAPAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- ALAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $100 · revenue +10%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2024 · $25 · revenue +10%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
To nurture a favorable business, economic, governmental, and social climate within the state of iowa so our citizens can have the opportunity to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…
To improve member newspapers
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF IOWA INC TANAKA ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds DMACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA BIRD REHABILITATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kleckner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kleckner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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