Iowa · Private foundation
Ramsey Family 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $996k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Ramsey Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 28 | $47k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $44k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $40k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $42k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $40k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $39k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $38k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $26k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Church of Christ | $96,360 | 8 | n/a |
| Mayflower Homes Inc | $28,227 | 8 | 0% |
| Grinnell School of Music Inc | $8,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Grinnell Regional Medical Center | $6,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $1,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Afs-Usa Inc | $1,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation | $1,050 | 2 | n/a |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.
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: Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · The Trustees of Grinnell College
How this is measured
About Ramsey Family Foundation
- How much does Ramsey Family Foundation give?
- Ramsey Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $47,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ramsey Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Education (25%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Ramsey Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Church of Christ ($96k), Mayflower Homes Inc ($28k), Grinnell School of Music Inc ($9k).
- Does Ramsey Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ramsey Family Foundation 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 Ramsey Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation, The Trustees of Grinnell College.
- Where is Ramsey Family Foundation based?
- Ramsey Family Foundation is based in IA.
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