Iowa · Private foundation
Pennebaker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $366k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Pennebaker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 18 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $11k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $11k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $22k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $23k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $24k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $25k | 9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New London Junior Baseball Association | $14,750 | 5 | 7% |
| Mt Pleasant Music Charities Inc | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Dover Historial Society Inc | $7,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Young House Family Services Inc | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry County Heritage Trust Inc | $4,766 | 8 | 1% |
| Iowa Wesleyan University | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Midwest Old Settlers & Threshers | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Harlan-Lincoln House Inc | $1,850 | 3 | n/a |
| New London Ag Foundation | $1,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Lewelling Quaker Museum Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New London Junior Baseball Association | $14,750 | 5 | 7% |
| Mt Pleasant Music Charities Inc | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Dover Historial Society Inc | $7,400 | 7 | n/a |
| Young House Family Services Inc | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Henry County Heritage Trust Inc | $4,766 | 8 | 1% |
| Iowa Wesleyan University | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Midwest Old Settlers & Threshers | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Harlan-Lincoln House Inc | $1,850 | 3 | n/a |
| New London Ag Foundation | $1,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Lewelling Quaker Museum Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Swedish Heritage Society Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Alcohol & Drug Dependency Services of Southeast Iowa | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry County Help to Others | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Action of Southeast Iowa | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pennebaker 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: William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pennebaker Foundation
- How much does Pennebaker Foundation give?
- Pennebaker Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $18,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pennebaker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (19%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
- Who are Pennebaker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New London Junior Baseball Association ($15k), Mt Pleasant Music Charities Inc ($13k), Dover Historial Society Inc ($7k).
- Does Pennebaker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pennebaker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pennebaker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Pennebaker Foundation based?
- Pennebaker Foundation is based in IA.
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