Iowa · Private foundation
Tomson Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $966k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 77
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Tomson Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 79 | $966k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $916k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $1.1M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $748k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Northern Iowa Foundation | $1,575,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum | $350,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Wartburg College | $345,500 | 6 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Clear Lake Classical Incorporated | $211,000 | 6 | 9% |
| The Naval Institute Foundation Inc | $165,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Luther College | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Luther Seminary | $110,000 | 6 | n/a |
| North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc | $79,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Iowa Specialty Hospital Foundation - Clarion | $65,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tomson Family Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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.
Open a dossier: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Farrer Endowment Foundation · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of North Central Iowa · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Victor M & Phyllis Frudden Meyer Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tomson Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Tomson Family Foundation Trust give?
- Tomson Family Foundation Trust reported 79 grants totaling $965,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 77 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tomson Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Tomson Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Northern Iowa Foundation ($1.6M), Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum ($350k), Wartburg College ($346k).
- Does Tomson Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tomson Family Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tomson Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation, Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation, Farrer Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Tomson Family Foundation Trust based?
- Tomson Family Foundation Trust is based in IA.
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