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The Warren Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$664k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Warren Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$41k20%
FY20234$55k25%
FY20222$78k0%
FY20214$55k0%
FY20209$23k56%
FY201911$20k82%
FY20187$21k57%
FY201711$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$224kHealth$36kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$7kYouth Development$7kEducation$6kInternational$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
OR
IA
CA
AR
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank of Iowa$6,50030%
Ruth Harbor$3,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$3,00010%
Puppy Jake Foundation$3,00010%
Youth Tribe$2,0001n/a
Cando Cancer$2,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute$2,00010%
Stupid Cancer Inc$2,00010%
Amigos For Christ Inc$1,65010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Warren Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank of Iowa$6,50030%
Ruth Harbor$3,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$3,00010%
Puppy Jake Foundation$3,00010%
Youth Tribe$2,0001n/a
Cando Cancer$2,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute$2,00010%
Stupid Cancer Inc$2,00010%
Amigos For Christ Inc$1,65010%
Train to Inspire$1,6001n/a
Family Resource Center Inc$1,3501n/a
Class Act Productions Inc$1,00011%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines$50010%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Warren Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank of Iowa: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRuth Harbor: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuppy Jake Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStupid Cancer Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos For Christ Inc: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClass Act Productions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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How do I get to The Warren Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Warren Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Warren Foundation Trust

How much does The Warren Foundation Trust give?
The Warren Foundation Trust reported 5 grants totaling $41,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Warren Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (72%), Health (12%), Human Services (5%).
Who are The Warren Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Food Bank of Iowa ($7k), Ruth Harbor ($3k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($3k).
Does The Warren Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Warren Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Warren Foundation Trust?
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, Meredith Corporation Foundation, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc.
Where is The Warren Foundation Trust based?
The Warren Foundation Trust is based in IA.

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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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