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Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA is dedicated to improving the lives of children who are at risk, underprivileged, critically ill, or living with special needs.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 84
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,994
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $92,965
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $4.1M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $2.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $2.7M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $2.1M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.8M | 39% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Health Foundation | $4,305,221 | 9 | 16% |
| Childserve Foundation Inc | $2,123,035 | 8 | 9% |
| Mercy Foundation of Des Moines Iowa | $1,272,085 | 8 | 4% |
| Youth and Shelter Services Inc | $1,204,438 | 7 | 2% |
| Ellipsis Inc | $965,885 | 5 | 12% |
| City of Des Moines | $758,115 | 2 | n/a |
| The City of Clive | $679,903 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa | $425,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa | $386,700 | 7 | 5% |
| Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation | $364,461 | 7 | 4% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa
- How much does Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa give?
- Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa reported 84 itemized grants totaling $1,642,429, out of $2,823,654 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa Health Foundation ($4.3M), Childserve Foundation Inc ($2.1M), Mercy Foundation of Des Moines Iowa ($1.3M).
- Does Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, United Way of Central Iowa.
- Where is Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa based?
- Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa is based in IA.
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