Iowa · Private foundation
Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $881k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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 | 13 | $881k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $840k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $909k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $770k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $592k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $704k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $774k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $704k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oelwein Event Corporation | $600,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | $400,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Williams Center Inc | $381,863 | 9 | 86% |
| Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley | $60,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Plentiful Pantry | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Parent Share and Support Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Friends of Fontana Park Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Oelwein Area Historical Society | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Hub City Heritage Corporation | $16,997 | 1 | n/a |
| Oelwein Area United Way Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oelwein Event Corporation | $600,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Mercy Hospital Foundation | $400,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Williams Center Inc | $381,863 | 9 | 86% |
| Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley | $60,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Plentiful Pantry | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Parent Share and Support Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Friends of Fontana Park Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Oelwein Area Historical Society | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Hub City Heritage Corporation | $16,997 | 1 | n/a |
| Oelwein Area United Way Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Oelwein Chamber and Area Development Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Waste Industry Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Take a Kid Outdoors | $1,150 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation
- How much does Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation give?
- Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $881,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oelwein Event Corporation ($600k), Mercy Hospital Foundation ($400k), Williams Center Inc ($382k).
- Does Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation based?
- Northeast Iowa Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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