· Private foundation
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| NEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC TELEVISION | $6,000 |
| ALL STRINGS ATTACHED | $6,000 |
| COON RAPIDS BAYARD FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF CONCERN FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| SAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAC COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $3,500 |
| EAST SAC COUNTY MUSIC BOOSTERS | $3,000 |
| COON RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| GRINNELL COLLEGE | $2,750 |
| IOWA ARBORETUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +110%- WFWorld Food Prize Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +51%
- NHNEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2017 · $11k
- CFCOMM FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY - COON RAPIDS-BAYARD ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Child day care center
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
To provide a source of daycare to the citizens of sanborn, iowa.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Improve communications between employers and local unions.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of the iowa business council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
To improve member newspapers
Provide a well rounded, affordable and dependable daycare facility for parents with children growing up in a rural north iowa area.
To provide nurturing and educational childcare services.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STRINGS ATTACHED ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COON RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds IOWA ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIL WILDCAT EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL AREA CHILD CARE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds IOWA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BREDA DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WORLD INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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