Iowa · Private foundation
St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 38
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $116k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $86k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $80k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $200k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $74k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Paul Lutheran Church | $112,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lime Springs Betterment Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Earth Village | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lutheran World Relief Inc | $12,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Lime Springs Community Club | $5,950 | 5 | n/a |
| Saetersdal Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| St Matthews Lutheran Church | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Guardians of Northeast Iowa Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Paul Lutheran Church | $112,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Lime Springs Betterment Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Earth Village | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lutheran World Relief Inc | $12,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Lime Springs Community Club | $5,950 | 5 | n/a |
| Saetersdal Lutheran Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| St Matthews Lutheran Church | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Guardians of Northeast Iowa Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mobile Mamma | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dfw Honor Flight | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), 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.
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How this is measured
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About St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment
- How much does St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment give?
- St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment reported 42 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 38 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (7%).
- Who are St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Paul Lutheran Church ($112k), Lime Springs Betterment Foundation ($25k), Good Earth Village ($15k).
- Does St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment based?
- St Paul Lutheran Church Mission Endowment is based in IA.
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