Iowa · Private foundation
Laverty 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.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- 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 Laverty 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $85k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $74k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $78k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $74k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $82,765 | 5 | 1% |
| Kiya Koda Humane Society | $37,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Heal House of Iowa | $20,700 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of the Indianola Public Library Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Warren County Historical Society | $15,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Simpson College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Project Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indianola Hope Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| We Lift Job Search Center | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), 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.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Laverty Foundation
- How much does Laverty Foundation give?
- Laverty Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $85,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Laverty Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Religion (24%), Education (14%).
- Who are Laverty Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Des Moines Metro Opera Inc ($83k), Kiya Koda Humane Society ($38k), Heal House of Iowa ($21k).
- Does Laverty Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laverty 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 Laverty Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Laverty Foundation based?
- Laverty Foundation is based in IA.
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