Iowa · Private foundation
The Accel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,063
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $90k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Accel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 25 | $63k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $49k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $38k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $32k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $56k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $42k | n/a |
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wartburg College | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Prospect Meadows Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc | $15,030 | 6 | 0% |
| Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northeast Iowa Food Bank | $10,686 | 5 | 0% |
| Cedar Valley Hospice Inc | $10,215 | 2 | 0% |
| Zach Johnson Foundation | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Foundation 2 Inc | $5,865 | 5 | 0% |
| Feed Iowa First | $5,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Cedar Rapids Community School District Foundation | $5,321 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Accel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Mercy Medical Center · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc
How this is measured
About The Accel Foundation
- How much does The Accel Foundation give?
- The Accel Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $62,717 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Accel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (15%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are The Accel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wartburg College ($26k), Prospect Meadows Inc ($25k), Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc ($15k).
- Does The Accel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Accel 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 The Accel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, GreenState Credit Union.
- Where is The Accel Foundation based?
- The Accel Foundation is based in IA.
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