Iowa · Private foundation
Sapp Family Charitable 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $206k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Sapp Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% 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 | 5 | $3k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $500 | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $9k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lutheran Church of Hope | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casey's Charities Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Parkinson Disease Assoc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Five Fires Foundation | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa | $550 | 1 | 0% |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn
How this is measured
About Sapp Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sapp Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Sapp Family Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sapp Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Sapp Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines ($7k), Lutheran Church of Hope ($3k), Casey's Charities Inc ($2k).
- Does Sapp Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sapp Family Charitable 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 Sapp Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Sapp Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Sapp Family Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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