Tennessee · Private foundation
The Coons 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.
- $387k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Coons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 28 | $377k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $286k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $243k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $309k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $331k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $285k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $301k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $297k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleylife | $511,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $379,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Joshua Christian Academy Inc | $155,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Iowa Pbs Foundation | $94,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Living History Farms Foundation | $68,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lucas County Fair Association | $56,500 | 3 | 15% |
| Des Moines Performing Arts | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lucas County Health Center Foundation | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St George's Independent School | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Helphopelive Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Coons 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Vredenburg Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Helen J and Thomas Nelson Urban Sr Charitable Foundation III · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr
How this is measured
About The Coons Foundation
- How much does The Coons Foundation give?
- The Coons Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $387,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Coons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (24%), Human Services (23%).
- Who are The Coons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wesleylife ($511k), Des Moines Metro Opera Inc ($379k), Joshua Christian Academy Inc ($155k).
- Does The Coons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Coons 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 Coons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, The Vredenburg Foundation, Meredith Corporation Foundation.
- Where is The Coons Foundation based?
- The Coons Foundation is based in TN.
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