Iowa · Private foundation
Richard McConnell 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.
- $263k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Richard McConnell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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 | 16 | $261k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $241k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $236k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $217k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $167k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $142k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $115k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $17k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| We Will Collective Incorporated | $175,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $28,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meals From the Heartland Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Star Mothers of Iowa 1 | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dragon Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rhythms of Grace | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| CROSS Outreach | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard McConnell Family 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: The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Richard McConnell Family Foundation with peer funders
About Richard McConnell Family Foundation
- How much does Richard McConnell Family Foundation give?
- Richard McConnell Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $263,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard McConnell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (16%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Richard McConnell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: We Will Collective Incorporated ($175k), Iowa State University Foundation ($28k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($15k).
- Does Richard McConnell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard McConnell 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 Richard McConnell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Richard McConnell Family Foundation based?
- Richard McConnell Family Foundation is based in IA.
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