Iowa · Private foundation
MidAmerican Energy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2022
- 303
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 302
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $333,909
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 376
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 4
- Total assets, FY2022
- $40M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 71% of the organizations MidAmerican Energy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 302 | $3.2M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $76k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 376 | $6.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Sports Foundation | $1,025,006 | 1 | 82% |
| United Way of Central Iowa | $333,909 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Mlk | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Underwood Youth Trap Club | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edmundson Art Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Great Outdoors Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Domestic Violence Intervention Program | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| River Action Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc | $85,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Des Moines Heritage Center | $75,000 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 544 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
MidAmerican Energy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 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: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lsb Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About MidAmerican Energy Foundation
- How much does MidAmerican Energy Foundation give?
- MidAmerican Energy Foundation reported 303 itemized grants totaling $3,187,032, out of $4,790,124 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 376 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does MidAmerican Energy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (13%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are MidAmerican Energy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Iowa Sports Foundation ($1.0M), United Way of Central Iowa ($334k), Friends of Mlk ($250k).
- Does MidAmerican Energy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does MidAmerican Energy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as MidAmerican Energy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GreenState Credit Union, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is MidAmerican Energy Foundation based?
- MidAmerican Energy Foundation is based in IA.
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