Iowa · Private foundation
Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust
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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 9 | $77k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $74k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $81k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $95k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $86k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $86k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Fontana Park Inc | $254,915 | 7 | 61% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $108,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hawkeye Community College Fdn | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kirkwood Community College Foundation | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Upper Iowa University | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mustang Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Morningside University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust
- How much does Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust give?
- Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $77,283 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of Fontana Park Inc ($255k), Iowa State University Foundation ($108k), Hawkeye Community College Fdn ($24k).
- Does Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust 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 Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust based?
- Orlan Snyder Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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