· Private foundation
The Slappey Family 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Academy for ScholasticPersonal | $1,500 |
| Matthew 25 | $1,000 |
| Ecumenical Center | $1,000 |
| Prairiewoods | $1,000 |
| Coe College | $500 |
| Kids First Law Center | $500 |
| Community Health Free Clinic | $500 |
| Orchestra Iowa | $500 |
| Willis Dady Shelter | $500 |
| Johnson County Foundation | $500 |
| Eastern Iowa Arts Academy | $350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundat | $250 |
| Fresh Start Ministries | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- M2MATTHEW 259× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +719%
- CMCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +416%
- IWIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- DEDOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +7%
- TGTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- SSunriseone grant, 2021 · $250
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.
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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 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…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CSPS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Eastern Iowa Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds IOWA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT IOWA FAITH AND CLIMATE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FURNITURE RESCUE ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · GreenState Credit Union
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Slappey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Slappey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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