· Private foundation
Stratford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NORTH IOWA AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $5,000 |
| CERRO GORDO CO SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN - NORTH IOWA | $4,000 |
| STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATER | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| 43 NORTH IOWA | $3,000 |
| MASON CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND | $1,500 |
| BOLAN SCHOOLHOUSE & CULTURAL CTR | $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 (FY18–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSTEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +17%
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +170%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MAMACNIDER ART MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $11k
- MCMASON CITY FIRE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $7k
- CBCHARLIE BROWN PRESCHOOL & CHILDCAREone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Christian opportunity center (coc) provides services to over 250 people with disabilities in south central iowa. training them with the skills they need to live and work in their communities. they offer work through their community-based…
To provide quality child care
To provide quality childcare for children ages two weeks to twelve years.
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
Assisting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (idd) in their quest for achieving informed lifestyle choices.
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
To empower individuals with disabilities to control their lives.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Supports adults with disabilities to live and work as independently as possible in the community of their choice.
Child day care center
Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 31 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 STEBENS CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stratford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stratford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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