Iowa · Private foundation
Melissa Lea Reicks 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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,060
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 16 | $80k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $114k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $71k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $127k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $187k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $77k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $177k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $83k | 65% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Medical Center | $100,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Protivin Firefighters Inc | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $14,984 | 3 | 0% |
| Lawler Irish Fest Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Chickasaw Athletic Booster Club | $5,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Riceville Food Pantry | $4,996 | 3 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $4,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Cultural Center | $4,200 | 4 | 2% |
| Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp | $4,023 | 2 | 0% |
| Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers | $3,531 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 174 recipients with no EIN on record ($826k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melissa Lea Reicks 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: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Thomson Charitable Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation
- How much does Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation give?
- Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $80,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (12%), Human Services (8%), Education (8%).
- Who are Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy Medical Center ($101k), Protivin Firefighters Inc ($21k), Northeast Iowa Food Bank ($15k).
- Does Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melissa Lea Reicks 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 Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, Thomson Charitable Foundation, Land O'Lakes Foundation.
- Where is Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation based?
- Melissa Lea Reicks Foundation is based in IA.
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