· Private foundation
The Fountain Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURSUIT ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CADANINO INC | $8,815 |
| GENERATION IMPACT MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| NEW LIFE CHURCH | $6,500 |
| HOUSE OF HIS PRESENCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,200 |
| RADIUS INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| FIRE INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| UPPER DEER CREEK CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CLEAR CREEK AMANA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of The Fountain Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGeneration Impact Ministries Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +10%
- CICadanino Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +57%
- RIRADIUS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- GRGENEROSITY ROCKSone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -52%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HOHaven of Hope Ministryone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +10%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Provide support, resources, and hope for a better future to persons affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and other crisis.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
Crossroads of crawford county is a christian outreach for the people and communities in crawford county, in iowa. it seeks to match people with resources which fit their personal or family needs while encouraging and supporting them though…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of iowa brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope by partnering with local habitat for humanity organizations to offer financial products, resource development,…
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Generation Impact Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Cadanino Inc ↗
- Who funds RADIUS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GENEROSITY ROCKS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haven of Hope Ministry ↗
- Who funds Caring for the Heart Ministries ↗
- Who funds Water For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Dream Center ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
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 Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Gary Wicklund Family Foundation · United Way of Johnson & Washington Count · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fountain Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fountain Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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