Iowa · Private foundation
Sirk Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $31k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $365k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Sirk Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $31k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $11k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $16k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $26k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $23k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $18k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $9k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubuque Community Y | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dubuque Symphony Orchestra | $20,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Dubuque Museum of Art | $12,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Northeast Iowa Council Boy Scouts | $6,425 | 3 | 0% |
| Dubuque Dream Center Inc | $6,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Dubuque Regional Humane Society | $5,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Hillcrest Family Services Inc | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Holy Spirit Church Dubuque Iowa | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Dubuque | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Uplift Internationale | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sirk 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: Heartland Charitable Trust · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Falb Family Charitable Foundation · The Butler Family Foundation · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Spahn & Rose Lumber Co Charitable Fdtn · Flynn Family Foundation · Schoen Family Charitable Trust · Crescent Electric Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Sirk Family Foundation
- How much does Sirk Family Foundation give?
- Sirk Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $31,395 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sirk Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Human Services (21%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Sirk Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dubuque Community Y ($35k), Dubuque Symphony Orchestra ($20k), Dubuque Museum of Art ($13k).
- Does Sirk Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sirk Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sirk Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heartland Charitable Trust, James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation, Dubuque Racing Association Ltd.
- Where is Sirk Family Foundation based?
- Sirk Family Foundation is based in IA.
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