· Private foundation
Premier Communications Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $72,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $52,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| GEHLEN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CITY OF LAKE PARK | $12,500 |
| LE MARS AREA CHILDCARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOSPERS FIRE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $344k · revenue +66%
- NCNORTHWESTERN COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +26%
- SCSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- SCSioux Center Healthgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +91%
- LMLE MARS A REA BETTERMENT FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RVROCK VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
To advance and support the programs and operations of sioux center christian school, and conducting any and all business necessary in furtherance of these purposes.
Provision of a pre-k through 12th grade private school education with a christian worldview.
Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.
To provide a christian-based education to grades K-8
Christian school for area children
Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.
K-8 school
Faith Based Educational Services for All Grades in a School Setting.
Western christian high school foundation primary purpose is to support the christian education and instruction of high school students as provided by western christian high school in hull, iowa.
Iowa christian academy is committed to raising generations of leaders committed to christ, trained as his disciples, educated in a god-honoring, traditional education system emphasizing biblical values, morals, character and integrity
Christian academy school for grades pre-k-12.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LE MARS AREA BETTERMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERRILL PIONEER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sioux Center Health ↗
- Who funds FLOYD VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEGG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL D/B/A HEGG HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CENTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF SPENCER ↗
- Who funds HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX COUNTY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Interstates Foundation · Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization · Vogel Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Demco Charitable Foundation · Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Vogel Charities Inc · Arlan J Van Wyk Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Premier Communications Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Premier Communications Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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