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Susan J Glazer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$692,754
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Susan J Glazer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$1.2M75%
FY202313$707k38%
FY202217$758k71%
FY202111$243k55%
FY202016$315k69%
FY201912$1.3M58%
FY201811$217kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$3.1MHealth$596kYouth Development$394kPhilanthropy$294kArts & Culture$177kReligion$160kHuman Services$138kFood & Nutrition$91kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
KS
NC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Susan J Glazer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDrake University: $1,657,315 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa: $273,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetVariety - the Children's Charity of Iowa: $103,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDomestic Violence & Rape Crisis Services of Saratoga County Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEllipsis Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFood Bank of Iowa: $71,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $60,959 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDes Moines Symphony Association: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Central Iowa: $37,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildserve Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDuke University: $33,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbove and Beyond Cancer Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCurebound: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDes Moines Film Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHidden Harvest Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOrchard Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScience Center of Iowa: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlank Park Zoo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Food Prize Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies Forward: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetArizona Science Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStrands of Strength Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Club of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Meredith Corporation FoundationIA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meredith Corporation Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · The Denny and Candy Elwell Foundation · Ita Group Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Susan J Glazer Foundation

How much does Susan J Glazer Foundation give?
Susan J Glazer Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,168,754 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Susan J Glazer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (12%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Susan J Glazer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Drake University ($1.7M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa ($273k), Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa ($104k).
Does Susan J Glazer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Susan J Glazer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Susan J Glazer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meredith Corporation Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, John Ruan Foundation Trust.
Where is Susan J Glazer Foundation based?
Susan J Glazer Foundation is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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