· Private foundation
The Langland Family Be A Light Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| North Liberty Community Pantry | $10,000 |
| Liberty High School | $8,000 |
| Liberty High School | $4,000 |
| Community Foundation of Johnson County | $2,500 |
| Iowa City School District Foundation | $1,010 |
| Summer of the Arts | $1,000 |
| Iowa State Dance Drill Team Association | $1,000 |
| Glioblastoma Research Organization | $750 |
| Liberty High School | $500 |
| Riverside Theatre | $500 |
| Hospice of Johnson County | $450 |
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 (FY23–23, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
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 6% of The Langland Family Be A Light Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 89%.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +30%
- ISIOWA STATE DANCEDRILL TEAM ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +23%
- SOSUMMER OF THE ARTS4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HHHospice House of Johnson Countyone grant, 2024 · $450
- HHHOSPICE HOME OF JOHNSON COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $450 · revenue +12%
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.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The organization is organized exclusively for the purpose of expanding and strengthening efforts to address the housing, shelter and service needs of lowincome residents of johnson county, iowa.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Our mission is to champion the iowa city downtown district as a progressive, healthy, and culturally-vibrant urban center of the region.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To improve member newspapers
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Stagewest theatre company d/b/a iowa stage theatre company transforms iowa, its citizens, and arts community by producing truthful, relevant, and intimate theatre that inspires, enlightens, and entertains.
To inspire and activate positive community growth through the arts.
To support the work of iowa legal aid in achieving its mission of making hope, dignity, and justice available to low income iowans.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 NORTH LIBERTY COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE DANCEDRILL TEAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMER OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GLIOBLASTOMA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOME OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
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: GreenState Credit Union · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dne Caplan Family Foundation · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Langland Family Be A Light Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Langland Family Be A Light Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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