· Private foundation
Walden Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER'S EDGE METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SPENCER REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ATLAS OF SPENCER | $13,000 |
| ATLAS OF LAKES AREA | $13,000 |
| CRESTON AREA FOOD PANTRY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CRESTON AREA FOOD SHELF DBA CRESTON FOOD PANTRY INC | $10,500 |
| TRI COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| DICKINSON COUNTY HUNGER COALITION | $10,000 |
| LOVE TAKES ROOT | $10,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| ORIENT UMC MOBILE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC | $5,000 |
| THE OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| CROSSWINDS CHURCH-EFCA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Walden Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSpencer Regional Healthcare Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +80%
- AOATLAS OF SPENCER5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +44%
- CACRESTON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- BCBattle Creek Historical Foundationone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SCSPENCER CHAMBER FOUNDATION FLOOD RECOVERY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SMSIGOURNEY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCECHAPone grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
Dedicated to providing access to affordable, compassionate, high quality health care for all.
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ATLAS OF SPENCER ↗
- Who funds CRESTON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE TAKES ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Interstates Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dwight and Marilyn Conover Foundation · The Chesterman Family Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walden Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walden Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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