Iowa · Public charity
Orchard Place
Our mission at ORCHARD PLACE is "developing strong futures" for the children and youth of iowa. We do this by providing a continuum of services to our clients who deal with mental and behavioral health challenges.
- $307k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $21k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Orchard Place funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $21k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $37k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $67k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $173k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $69k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $123k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Human Services$558k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tender Years Daycare | $22,075 | 2 | n/a |
| Lilypad Learning Center & Research Park | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa State University | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Story Book Child Care & Preschool | $20,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Shining Stars I | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ss Services LLC Dba Little Sprouts | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Traditions Children's Center II - Bldg 100 | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Clive Children's Center | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Clive Children's Center II | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Traditions Children's Center I | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 56 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tender Years Daycare | $22,075 | 2 | n/a |
| Lilypad Learning Center & Research Park | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa State University | $21,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Story Book Child Care & Preschool | $20,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Shining Stars I | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ss Services LLC Dba Little Sprouts | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Traditions Children's Center II - Bldg 100 | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Clive Children's Center | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Clive Children's Center II | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Traditions Children's Center I | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bright Horizons Childrens Centers LLC Dba Discovery Preschoo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lil' Cubs | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Whistle Stop Academy | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yellow Brick Road Child Care Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lil Scholars Preschool | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Lil Scholars Too | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Little Endeavors | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Adventures Preschool | $11,300 | 1 | 17% |
| The Whistle Stop Academy Childcare Center and Preschool Inc | $11,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Dmacc | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Reach Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kindercare Learning Centers LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shining Stars II | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tracey For Tots | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Des Moines Public Schools | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Endeavors | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leaps and Bounds Children's Academy | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $7,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Nccc LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grinnell Community Day Care | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kid-Ville Inc Baxter Early Learning Center | $6,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Peck Child Development Center Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Village Ltd | $6,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Magical Beginnings Early Childhood Center | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mundo Pequenito LLC | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Paul Lutheran Preschool | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Messiah Lutheran Church | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ames Community Preschool Center | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Little Acorns Daycare | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children and Families of Iowa | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University Community Childcare Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| LAMONI COMMUNITY DAY CARE dba FUNSHINE LEARNING CENTER | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| America's Children of Oakmoor | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| House of Mercy | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tradition Children's Center III | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Growing Greatness Learning Center | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Bear Creek Kids Campus | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Albia Preschool&Daycare Center Inc | $5,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Future Bulldogs Child Care LLC | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Together for Story County Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Lilypad Learning Center | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Care Junction Inc | $5,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Tiger Tots Community Child Care Center Corp | $5,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Stepping Stones Early Learning Center Inc | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Inspirations Childcare and Preschool Center | $5,200 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Orchard Place supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.
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.
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA22.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Chrysalis Foundation · United Way of Central Iowa · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Orchard Place
- How much does Orchard Place give?
- Orchard Place reported 3 itemized grants totaling $20,600, out of $307,186 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Orchard Place fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (100%).
- Who are Orchard Place's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tender Years Daycare ($22k), Lilypad Learning Center & Research Park ($21k), Iowa State University ($21k).
- Does Orchard Place fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Orchard Place?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Chrysalis Foundation, United Way of Central Iowa.
- Where is Orchard Place based?
- Orchard Place is based in IA.
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