How much does The Trustees of Grinnell College give?

The Trustees of Grinnell College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $245,147, out of $79,738,383 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Trustees of Grinnell College fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Public Benefit (19%), Recreation & Sports (10%).

Who are The Trustees of Grinnell College's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Grinnell ($437k), Grinnell Regional Medical Center ($156k), Chamber of Commerce of Grinnell ($144k).

Does The Trustees of Grinnell College fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Trustees of Grinnell College?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation, Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation, GreenState Credit Union.

Where is The Trustees of Grinnell College based?

The Trustees of Grinnell College is based in IA.

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The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." the college pursues…

$80M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $245k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $14,919
Largest grant, FY2025: $103,380
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 10; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Trustees of Grinnell College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	7	$142k	29%
FY2024	9	$152k	22%
FY2023	10	$96k	30%
FY2022	6	$58k	33%
FY2021	6	$349k	50%
FY2020	5	$63k	40%
FY2019	5	$74k	20%
FY2018	4	$60k	50%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$376kPublic Benefit$329kRecreation & Sports$172kHealth$163kCommunity Improvement$152kArts & Culture$148kCrime & Legal$100kHuman Services$86kOther$0

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
City of Grinnell	$437,410	6	n/a
Grinnell Regional Medical Center	$155,655	7	0%
Chamber of Commerce of Grinnell	$144,155	8	26%
Essie Justice Group	$100,000	1	5%
Grinnell School of Music Inc	$79,880	2	10%
Grinnell-Newburg School Disct	$70,636	7	n/a
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc	$40,350	3	0%
Ahrens Park Foundation	$35,000	1	2%
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation	$32,473	2	2%
The Collective the Cltv Inc	$25,000	1	8%

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All grantees of The Trustees of Grinnell College by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Grinnell	$437,410	6	n/a
Grinnell Regional Medical Center	$155,655	7	0%
Chamber of Commerce of Grinnell	$144,155	8	26%
Essie Justice Group	$100,000	1	5%
Grinnell School of Music Inc	$79,880	2	10%
Grinnell-Newburg School Disct	$70,636	7	n/a
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc	$40,350	3	0%
Ahrens Park Foundation	$35,000	1	2%
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation	$32,473	2	2%
The Collective the Cltv Inc	$25,000	1	8%
Grinnell Volunteer Fire Association	$23,848	3	14%
Grinnell Community Day Care	$20,889	3	1%
LINK Inc	$18,128	2	4%
United Church of Christ	$12,500	2	n/a
United Fund of Grinnell Iowa Inc	$10,100	2	4%
Poweshiek Animal League Shelter Humane Society	$8,212	1	7%
Poweshiek County	$7,500	1	n/a
Greater Des Moines Partnership	$7,500	1	0%
Adopt a Family Local Food Connection	$7,500	1	n/a
Four Oaks Family and Children's Services	$7,000	1	0%
Capstone Behavioral Healthcare Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Grinnell-Newburg Boosters	$5,937	1	5%
Grinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr	$5,900	1	1%
Rock Creek Lake Alliance	$5,000	1	n/a
Grin City Collective	$5,000	1	n/a

The Trustees of Grinnell College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 18.

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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.

Greater Poweshiek Community FoundationIA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Brownell Family Foundation · Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation · Lsb Foundation · Ramsey Family Foundation · United Fund of Grinnell Iowa Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Trustees of Grinnell College

How much does The Trustees of Grinnell College give?: The Trustees of Grinnell College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $245,147, out of $79,738,383 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Trustees of Grinnell College fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Public Benefit (19%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are The Trustees of Grinnell College's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Grinnell ($437k), Grinnell Regional Medical Center ($156k), Chamber of Commerce of Grinnell ($144k).
Does The Trustees of Grinnell College fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Trustees of Grinnell College?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation, Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation, GreenState Credit Union.
Where is The Trustees of Grinnell College based?: The Trustees of Grinnell College is based in IA.