· Private foundation
Stine Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2026
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
- $250k+2 grants · $952k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| Buena Vista University | $452,317 |
| RIDE THE THIN BLUE LINE | $111,000 |
| WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| ADM Scholarship Foundation | $1,000 |
| CULTUREALL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 50% of Stine Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 50%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DRAKE UNIVERSITY10× · 2017–2026 · $4.7M · revenue +20%
Buena Vista University4× · 2023–2026 · $1.4M · revenue +13%- SMSPURGEON MANOR INC3× · 2018–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IFIOWA FFA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +51%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
The iowa soybean association (isa) is driven to deliver increased soybean demand through market development and new uses, farmer-focused research and results, timely information and know-how, and policy initiatives enabling farmers and the…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The objective, powers, and purposes of this association shall be to associate the members thereof together into a society for the purpose of promoting the interests and welfare of iowa cooperatives by any appropriate means but specifically…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 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 DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
- Who funds SPURGEON MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON ESTES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULTUREALL INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BRENTON ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds ON WITH LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AGRIBUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds WHITEROCK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO URBAN OUTREACH 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Lsb Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Ita Group Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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