Iowa · Private foundation
Schiller Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $307k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $539k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Schiller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 | 39 | $307k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $171k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $134k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $142k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $148k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $92k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $167k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $82k | 13% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Young Mens Christian Association | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $41,550 | 4 | n/a |
| Augustana College | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Newton Main Street | $20,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens Inc | $19,500 | 8 | 9% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Discover Hope 517 | $12,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Progress Industries | $7,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Newton Community Theatre Inc | $7,250 | 9 | 2% |
| Concordia Seminary | $6,000 | 8 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Young Mens Christian Association | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Our Savior Lutheran Church | $41,550 | 4 | n/a |
| Augustana College | $22,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Newton Main Street | $20,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens Inc | $19,500 | 8 | 9% |
| Blank Park Zoo Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Discover Hope 517 | $12,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Progress Industries | $7,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Newton Community Theatre Inc | $7,250 | 9 | 2% |
| Concordia Seminary | $6,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Shepherds Canyon Retreat Inc | $5,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of Jasper County | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Focus on the Family | $4,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $4,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grace Lutheran Church | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Crisis Canines of the Midlands | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $2,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Jasper County Concert Association Inc | $2,250 | 9 | n/a |
| Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| YMCA of the Rockies | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| My Warrior's Place Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schiller 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Smith Family Foundation Trust · Fnnb Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Donald C & Doris K Byers Charitable Trust · B D Charitable Trust · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Schiller Family Foundation
- How much does Schiller Family Foundation give?
- Schiller Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $307,440 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schiller Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Religion (16%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Schiller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newton Young Mens Christian Association ($100k), Our Savior Lutheran Church ($42k), Augustana College ($23k).
- Does Schiller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schiller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schiller Family 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, Fred Maytag Family Foundation, Smith Family Foundation Trust.
- Where is Schiller Family Foundation based?
- Schiller Family Foundation is based in IA.
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