Iowa · Private foundation
The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $438k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 27 | $438k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $376k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $405k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $436k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $374k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $366k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $382k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $371k | 21% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Fort Dodge | $210,800 | 3 | n/a |
| The Comedia Musica Players | $172,000 | 8 | 53% |
| Blanden Charitable Foundation | $154,100 | 9 | 23% |
| Friends of Webster County Conservation | $143,775 | 4 | 51% |
| Hawkeye Community Theatre | $133,700 | 6 | 52% |
| Stage Door Productions | $91,000 | 6 | 57% |
| Fort Dodge Choral Society | $46,316 | 7 | n/a |
| Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association | $42,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Badger Lake Dragon Boat Association | $38,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cinematography for Actors Institute Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Fort Dodge | $210,800 | 3 | n/a |
| The Comedia Musica Players | $172,000 | 8 | 53% |
| Blanden Charitable Foundation | $154,100 | 9 | 23% |
| Friends of Webster County Conservation | $143,775 | 4 | 51% |
| Hawkeye Community Theatre | $133,700 | 6 | 52% |
| Stage Door Productions | $91,000 | 6 | 57% |
| Fort Dodge Choral Society | $46,316 | 7 | n/a |
| Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association | $42,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Badger Lake Dragon Boat Association | $38,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cinematography for Actors Institute Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Webster County Fair Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa | $17,933 | 5 | 0% |
| Main Street Fort Dodge Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Athletics for Education and Success Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Preserve Fort Dodge | $13,248 | 1 | n/a |
| Lords Cupboard Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| DomesticSexual Assault Outreach Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Christian Schools | $8,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Fort Dodge Historical Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Upper Des Moines Opportunity Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lotus Community Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Trinity Regional Medical Center | $4,895 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Early Childhood Center | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Linking Families & Communities | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Iowa Safe Schools | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Saint Edmond Catholic School | $452 | 1 | n/a |
| Nextgen Fort Dodge | $375 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge · Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Siefer Charitable Tua Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · James W and Frances M Ackerman Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation give?
- The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $437,972 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Fort Dodge ($211k), The Comedia Musica Players ($172k), Blanden Charitable Foundation ($154k).
- Does The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way and Community Foundation of Greater Fort Dodge, Ann Smeltzer Charitable Trust, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation based?
- The Catherine Vincent Deardorf Charitable Foundation is based in IA.
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