Iowa · Private foundation
R J McElroy Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $615,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 114
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations R J McElroy Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 91 | $2.1M | 51% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $2.5M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1.9M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Successlink Inc | $205,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Sunflower Childcare Center Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Youth Art Team | $145,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Waverly Child Care & Preschool | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cedar Valley Preschool & Child Care Center | $67,500 | 2 | 12% |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Embracing Explorations | $45,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley | $42,350 | 2 | 6% |
| Sumner Daycare & Learning Center Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 119 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
R J McElroy Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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: Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Cedar Valley United Way · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Gallagher Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · Greenstate Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Pauline R Barrett Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About R J McElroy Trust
- How much does R J McElroy Trust give?
- R J McElroy Trust reported 93 grants totaling $2,067,110 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 114 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does R J McElroy Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (8%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are R J McElroy Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Successlink Inc ($205k), Sunflower Childcare Center Inc ($200k), Youth Art Team ($145k).
- Does R J McElroy Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R J McElroy Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as R J McElroy Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Otto Schoitz Foundation, Lsb Foundation.
- Where is R J McElroy Trust based?
- R J McElroy Trust is based in IA.
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