Iowa · Private foundation
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $928k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 24 | $93k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $94k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $88k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $85k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $81k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $77k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $70k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $69k | 21% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $65,500 | 8 | 0% |
| All Strings Attached | $54,000 | 9 | 8% |
| World Food Prize Foundation | $53,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Hope Village Foundation | $49,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Community of Concern | $46,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Coon Rapids-Bayard Food Pantry | $45,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Main Street Coon Rapids | $22,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Iowa Arboretum Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $16,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $65,500 | 8 | 0% |
| All Strings Attached | $54,000 | 9 | 8% |
| World Food Prize Foundation | $53,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Hope Village Foundation | $49,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Community of Concern | $46,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Coon Rapids-Bayard Food Pantry | $45,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Main Street Coon Rapids | $22,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Iowa Arboretum Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $16,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Iowa Pbs Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lil Wildcat Education Center Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carroll Area Child Care Center and Preschool | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Iowa Safe Schools | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Breda Day Care Center Inc | $7,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Lake City Day Care Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sac Community Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kids World Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roswell and Elizabeth Garst 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: Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation
- How much does Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation give?
- Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $92,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($66k), All Strings Attached ($54k), World Food Prize Foundation ($53k).
- Does Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, Warren Htimmerman Charitable Trust, Pella Rolscreen Foundation.
- Where is Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation based?
- Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation is based in IA.
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