Iowa · Private foundation
The Vredenburg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $327k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 87%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 87% of the organizations The Vredenburg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $327k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $245k | 87% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $370k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $408k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $318k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $229k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $265k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $277k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 Chariton | $425,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Hope Learning Center | $195,500 | 8 | 7% |
| Lucas County Arts Council | $144,500 | 7 | 43% |
| Lucas County Health Center | $138,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Chariton Community Schools | $102,145 | 5 | n/a |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lucas County Fair Association | $75,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Almost Home Animal Rescue | $50,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Iowa Pbs Foundation | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chariton Volunteer Fire Department | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Chariton | $425,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Hope Learning Center | $195,500 | 8 | 7% |
| Lucas County Arts Council | $144,500 | 7 | 43% |
| Lucas County Health Center | $138,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Chariton Community Schools | $102,145 | 5 | n/a |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lucas County Fair Association | $75,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Almost Home Animal Rescue | $50,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Iowa Pbs Foundation | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chariton Volunteer Fire Department | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lucas County Historical Society | $40,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Hertko Hollow Inc | $29,000 | 4 | 1% |
| City of Russell | $25,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Our Saviors Lutheran Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fonda Arts Center | $21,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Iowa Legal Aid | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parents and Children First of Lucas County | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Interchurch Council of Lucas County Iowa Inc | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Circle of Freedom | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Chariton Valley Regional Housing Trust Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Graceland University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Circle of Life Hospice | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chariton Girls Softball League | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Vredenburg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Vredenburg Foundation
- How much does The Vredenburg Foundation give?
- The Vredenburg Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $327,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Vredenburg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Public Benefit (18%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Vredenburg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Chariton ($426k), Hope Learning Center ($196k), Lucas County Arts Council ($145k).
- Does The Vredenburg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vredenburg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vredenburg 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, South Central Iowa Community Founda, The Coons Foundation.
- Where is The Vredenburg Foundation based?
- The Vredenburg Foundation is based in IA.
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