· Private foundation
Maser Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDWOOD NATURE PRESERVE | $13,000 |
| FIRST PRESYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIS | $500 |
| DICKINSON COUNTY CONSERVATION BOARD | $150 |
| PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER | $75 |
| IOWA PBS | $35 |
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +30%
- CFCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +22%
- OPOkoboji Protective Association3× · 2018–2023 · $700 · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LALAKES AREA DOG PARKone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BBLACKSTONEone grant, 2022 · $3k
- DUDucks Unlimited Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +99%
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.
Cultivate stewardship through environmental education and research, advocate for adequate funding of park programs and infrasturcture improvements, increase park users and improve the quality of vistor experiences in iowa parks.
To preserve and enhance the water and air quality of the iowa great lakes, situated in dickinson county, iowa, to protect the iowa great lakes from water and air pollution and related environmental concerns, to preserve the iowa great…
The corporation is organized primarily for the purpose of enhancing the human experience and quality of life through beautification of the iowa great lakes region by providing funding and development of enriching projects through…
Awareness among visitors and residents while fostering appreciation, preservation and conservation of the iowa great lakes regions unique culture, history, glacial geological formations, native species and natural habitats through…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 WILDWOOD NATURE PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds PEARSON LAKES ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds LE MARS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT LAKE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Okoboji Protective Association ↗
- Who funds LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Joseph Andres Family Foundation · Bedell World Citizenship Fund · Steve Pearson Foundation Inc · Peterson Family Foundation · The Quarry Fund · Anne Thorne Weaver Family 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 Maser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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