Iowa · Private foundation
Lsb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $239k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 130
- Grants FY2025
- 120
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 111 to 138
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Lsb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 101 | $232k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 120 | $214k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 129 | $257k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 130 | $210k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $207k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 138 | $226k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 119 | $221k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 111 | $213k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Bend Humane Society | $39,065 | 9 | 1% |
| Iowa College Foundation | $36,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hawkeye Community College Fdn | $36,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $33,984 | 9 | 0% |
| YWCA Black Hawk County | $29,467 | 9 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc | $25,071 | 9 | 0% |
| Peoples Community Health Clinic Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grand View Christian School Association Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Des Moines Water Works Park Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley | $18,800 | 8 | 4% |
Show all 218 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 156 recipients with no EIN on record ($839k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lsb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 175 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Otto Schoitz Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Cedar Valley United Way · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lsb Foundation
- How much does Lsb Foundation give?
- Lsb Foundation reported 130 grants totaling $238,759 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 111 and 138 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lsb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are Lsb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedar Bend Humane Society ($39k), Iowa College Foundation ($37k), Hawkeye Community College Fdn ($37k).
- Does Lsb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lsb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lsb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Black Hawk County Gaming Association, Otto Schoitz Foundation.
- Where is Lsb Foundation based?
- Lsb Foundation is based in IA.
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