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Margaret Ann Martin Everist 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.

$84k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$42,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$84k0%
FY20232$136k100%
FY20222$95k50%
FY20211$85k100%
FY20202$82k100%
FY20192$85k50%
FY20183$85k100%
FY20172$80kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$690kEducation$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Art Center Association of Sioux City$112,55025%
Lamb Arts Ltd$75,000114%
The Sioux City Conservatory of Music$69,500223%
National Music Museum (Americas Shrine to Music)$61,00012%
The Childrens Museum of Siouxland Inc$49,50027%
Briar Cliff University$34,50210%
Friends of Fm 90$17,450111%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($312k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Missouri River Histor…The Chesterman Family…Baird Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Missouri River Historical Development IncIA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation

How much does Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation give?
Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (4%).
Who are Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Art Center Association of Sioux City ($113k), Lamb Arts Ltd ($75k), The Sioux City Conservatory of Music ($70k).
Does Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret Ann Martin Everist 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 Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Missouri River Historical Development Inc, The Chesterman Family Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation based?
Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation is based in IA.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $166k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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