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The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$569k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,250
Organizations funded a year
14 to 36
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$569k23%
FY202314$390k7%
FY202219$585k16%
FY202115$440k33%
FY202019$385k47%
FY201914$411k7%
FY201836$403k36%
FY201733$409kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MEducation$680kHuman Services$342kAnimals$177kReligion$128kArts & Culture$110kRecreation & Sports$87kYouth Development$55kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IA
CA
VA
AZ
KS
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa Health Care Association Foundation$624,000871%
West Des Moines Christian Church$60,0002n/a
Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation$56,20070%
Strands of Strength Inc$52,00077%
St Luke's Health Care Foundation$50,00011%
Children and Families of Iowa$40,00040%
Food Bank of Iowa$38,20060%
Terrace Hill Partnership$33,9353n/a
Hope Ministries$25,00050%
Barrett Boesen Foundation$18,000392%
Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIowa Health Care Association Foundation: $624,000 over 8y, 71% of budgetHoyt Sherman Place Foundation: $56,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetStrands of Strength Inc: $52,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetSt Luke's Health Care Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildren and Families of Iowa: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Iowa: $38,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ministries: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBarrett Boesen Foundation: $18,000 over 3y, 92% of budgetScience Center of Iowa: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrchard Place: $13,233 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTori's Angels Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPuppy Jake Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChrysalis Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Golden Gloves: $3,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMound Farm Holdings Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAheinz57 Pet Rescue & Transport Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEllipsis Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Donor Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Jewish Senior Life Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Pbs Foundation: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA36.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Iowa Realty Foundation · The Seidler Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation

How much does The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation give?
The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $569,321 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (19%), Human Services (9%).
Who are The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Iowa Health Care Association Foundation ($624k), West Des Moines Christian Church ($60k), Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation ($56k).
Does The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable 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 John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable 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, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation.
Where is The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundation based?
The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable 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 71 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.

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