Skip to content
Foundation Dossiers

Iowa · Private foundation

The Christeson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$200
Largest grant, FY2024
$400
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Des Moines Performing Arts$20010%
Marion County Humane Society$11510%
Children and Families of Iowa$10010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Compare The Christeson Family Foundation with peer funders

About The Christeson Family Foundation

How much does The Christeson Family Foundation give?
The Christeson Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $2,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Christeson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Community Improvement (19%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are The Christeson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Des Moines Performing Arts ($200), Marion County Humane Society ($115), Children and Families of Iowa ($100).
Does The Christeson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Christeson Family Foundation based?
The Christeson Family 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 11 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Christeson Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home