Iowa · Private foundation
Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 125
- Grants FY2025
- 107
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 107
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k 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 | 111 | $2.1M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 107 | $2.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $1.3M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $1.7M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 78 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 89 | $1.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Cedar Valley | $300,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Successlink Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Grout Museum Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Cedar Valley Hospice Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cedar Valley Preschool & Child Care Center | $195,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Transformations by Cedar Valley Angels | $190,000 | 5 | 39% |
| Grin & Grow Ltd | $180,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Hawkeye Community College Fdn | $180,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Iowa Heartland Habitat for Humanity | $175,000 | 6 | 1% |
| City of Waterloo - Waterloo Leisure Services | $173,500 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 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: Otto Schoitz Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Cedar Valley United Way · R J McElroy Trust · Van G Miller Family Charitable Foundation · The Gallagher Family Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Duroe Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Trustage Foundation Inc · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation
- How much does Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation give?
- Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation reported 125 grants totaling $2,186,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 107 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Youth Development (14%), Education (10%).
- Who are Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of the Cedar Valley ($300k), Successlink Inc ($260k), Grout Museum Inc ($200k).
- Does Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Schoitz Foundation, Lsb Foundation, Black Hawk County Gaming Association.
- Where is Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation based?
- Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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