Iowa · Private foundation
Stratford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $293k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Stratford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 10 | $40k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $34k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $28k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $35k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $32k | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Lauer Youth Services | $34,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Stebens Children's Theatre | $28,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $15,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Macnider Art Museum | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| One Vision | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Iowa Transition Center Inc | $3,011 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampton Community Christian Day Care Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christmas Cheer Fund Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Lauer Youth Services | $34,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Stebens Children's Theatre | $28,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $15,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Macnider Art Museum | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| One Vision | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Iowa Transition Center Inc | $3,011 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampton Community Christian Day Care Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christmas Cheer Fund Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Bolan Schoolhouse and Cultural Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Farrer Endowment Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Lee Endowment Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Blanche Carey Martin Charitable Tr · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Stratford Foundation
- How much does Stratford Foundation give?
- Stratford Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $39,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stratford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Stratford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Francis Lauer Youth Services ($35k), Stebens Children's Theatre ($28k), Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc ($16k).
- Does Stratford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stratford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stratford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farrer Endowment Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Stratford Foundation based?
- Stratford Foundation is based in IA.
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