How much does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation give?

TrueNorth Legacy Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

What does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Human Services (10%), Education (7%).

Who are TrueNorth Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The Community Theatre of Cedar Rapids Inc ($250k), Coe College ($200k), Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($100k).

Does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as TrueNorth Legacy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, GreenState Credit Union, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.

Where is TrueNorth Legacy Foundation based?

TrueNorth Legacy Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

TrueNorth Legacy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$590k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023

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85% of TrueNorth Legacy Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year TrueNorth Legacy Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $590k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
States reached, FY2024: 3
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.2MHuman Services$460kEducation$308kArts & Culture$295kHealth$139kCommunity Improvement$105kAnimals$85kYouth Development$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Community Theatre of Cedar Rapids Inc	$250,000	1	10%
Coe College	$200,000	2	0%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Tanager Place	$75,000	2	0%
Newbo City Market	$75,000	1	3%
Cedar Valley Humane Society	$75,000	1	3%
Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation	$75,000	1	13%
Foundation 2 Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Horizons a Family Service Alliance	$75,000	1	2%
St Luke's Health Care Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of TrueNorth Legacy Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Community Theatre of Cedar Rapids Inc	$250,000	1	10%
Coe College	$200,000	2	0%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Tanager Place	$75,000	2	0%
Newbo City Market	$75,000	1	3%
Cedar Valley Humane Society	$75,000	1	3%
Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation	$75,000	1	13%
Foundation 2 Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Horizons a Family Service Alliance	$75,000	1	2%
St Luke's Health Care Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a
Waypoint Services	$50,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor	$50,000	3	1%
The Marion Parks & Recreation	$25,000	1	6%
Eastern Iowa Health Center	$25,000	1	0%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Area	$25,000	1	0%
African-American Heritage Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Wellspring Community	$25,000	1	1%
Grow Centerville	$25,000	1	n/a
State Center Fire and EMS Association Inc	$25,000	1	32%
Discovery Living Inc	$24,000	1	0%
Indian Creek Nature Center	$20,000	1	1%
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Folds of Honor Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Redeemer Lutheran Church	$15,000	1	n/a
Prospect Meadows Inc	$14,000	1	n/a
Iowa Dental Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Star 1 Search and Rescue Association	$10,000	1	n/a
National Jewish Health	$10,000	1	0%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Dogs Forever of Iowa	$10,000	1	7%
The Freedom Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Central City PTO	$5,000	1	n/a
National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$5,000	1	n/a
Childserve Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Moville Community Development Association Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Monarch Research Project	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

TrueNorth Legacy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 29.

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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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI54.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · The Accel Foundation · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc

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 TrueNorth Legacy Foundation

How much does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation give?: TrueNorth Legacy Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Human Services (10%), Education (7%).
Who are TrueNorth Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The Community Theatre of Cedar Rapids Inc ($250k), Coe College ($200k), Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($100k).
Does TrueNorth Legacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as TrueNorth Legacy Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, GreenState Credit Union, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.
Where is TrueNorth Legacy Foundation based?: TrueNorth Legacy Foundation is based in DE.