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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $245,147, the rows itemized in this filing. The $79,738,383 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,493,236 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
$14,919
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER POWESHIEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$103,380
GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC$50,200
GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$45,350
GRINNELL AREA CHAMBER COMMERCE$14,919
GRINNELL-NEWBURG COMMUNITY SCHOOL$9,388
THE GREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP$7,500
GRINNELL FARM TO TABLE$7,500
GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE$6,910
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $7k → 9%LINK INC: $11k → 9%GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAYCARE: $7k → 9%LINK INC: $7k → 9%GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $7k → 9%GRINNELL COMMUNITY DAYCARE: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $14M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$5.0M · 35% · 237 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

South Asia$2.5M · 18% · 88 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.8M · 12% · 65 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

South America$1.5M · 10% · 42 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.3M · 9% · 39 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

Russia and Neighboring States$735k · 5% · 19 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

Central America and the Caribbean$543k · 4% · 13 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · FELLOWSHIPS · INTERNSHIPS

Middle East and North Africa$470k · 3% · 14 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$274k · 2% · 15 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIPS · PRIZES · FELLOWSHIPS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GR
    GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +35%
  • CO
    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +7% · 26% of their budget
  • GS
    GRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • EJ
    Essie Justice Groupgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +181%
  • AP
    Ahrens Park Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -51%
  • TC
    THE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation
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2
Greater Des Moines Partnership Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Grinnell Regional Medical Center Foundation

To support grinnell regional medical center and community healthcare.

Health
4
Grimes Area Chamber of Commerce Dba Grimes Chamber & Economic Developmen

To promote development of new business and to support and expand existing businesses in grimes, iowa.

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5
Ingersoll Grand Self-Supported Municipal Improvement District

To champion The Avenues to Greater Des Moines and beyond - We create and sustain a clean, safe, beautiful and healthy environment within The Avenues district. We advance this authentic cultural district built on civility, history,…

Community Improvement
6
Common Good 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.

—
7
Greene County Development Corp

To foster, encourage, and promote by financial or other means, the establishment and growth of industry and business in greene county, iowa.

—
8
Iowa Center for Children's Justice

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.

Civil Rights
9
Endow Glidden

To establish an endowment fund to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of Glidden, Iowa

Philanthropy
10
Iowa Giving Crew

Raising funds and marshaling resources within our collective networks to serve those in need throughout our community.

Unclassified
11
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
12
Guardians of Northeast Iowa Inc

To provide guardianship and trustee services to vulnerable individuals in iowa. services also include representative payee.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grinnell Regional Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Ahrens Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF GRINNELL: $437,410 · OtherCITY OF GRINNELLCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL: $144,155 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELLGrinnell-Newburg School Disct: $70,636 · OtherGrinnell-Newburg School DisctAhrens Park Foundation: $35,000 · Other+12 more: $123,497 · Other+12 moreGreater Poweshiek Community Foundation: $372,013 · PhilanthropyGreater Poweshiek Community Fo…TIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation: $32,473 · PhilanthropyClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Founda…GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $155,655 · HealthGRINNELL R…Essie Justice Group: $100,000 · Crime & LegalGRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $79,880 · Arts & CultureMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $40,350 · Community ImprovementGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $7,500 · Community ImprovementGRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $20,889 · Human ServicesLINK Inc: $18,128 · Human ServicesFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$810,698Philanthropy$454,486Health$155,655Crime & Legal$100,000Arts & Culture$79,880Community Improvement$47,850Human Services$46,017

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Poweshiek Community Foundation: $372,013 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetGRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $155,655 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GRINNELL: $144,155 over 8y, 26% of budgetEssie Justice Group: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGRINNELL SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $79,880 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $40,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAhrens Park Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetClaude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation: $32,473 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE THE CLTV INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGrinnell Volunteer Fire Association: $23,848 over 3y, 14% of budgetGRINNELL COMMUNITY DAY CARE: $20,889 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLINK Inc: $18,128 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED FUND OF GRINNELL IOWA INC: $10,100 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPOWESHIEK ANIMAL LEAGUE SHELTER HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,212 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrinnell-Newburg Boosters: $5,937 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGrinnell Area Arts Council DBA Grinnell Community TheatreTurlachUr: $5,900 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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 Com…Grinnell Mutual Group…GreenState Credit Uni…Brownell Family Found…Claude W & Dolly Ahre…Lsb FoundationRamsey Family Foundat…United Fund of Grinne…Delta Dental of Iowa …Alliant Energy Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Trustees of Grinnell College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Trustees of Grinnell College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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