Iowa · Private foundation
Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $452k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 17 | $36k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $52k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $30k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $30k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $7k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $13k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $51k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines | $54,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Marshalltown Community School District Foundation | $7,700 | 2 | 9% |
| Chapel by the Sea | $6,933 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa | $3,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Iowa | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| John Austin Cheley Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc | $1,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: EMC Insurance Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · The Noble Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Fred Maytag Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation
- How much does Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation give?
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $35,640 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Human Services (26%), Education (7%).
- Who are Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines ($54k), Marshalltown Community School District Foundation ($8k), Chapel by the Sea ($7k).
- Does Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include EMC Insurance Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, William C Knapp Charitable Fdn.
- Where is Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation based?
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundation is based in IA.
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