Iowa · Private foundation
Young Family Foundation of Waterloo
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Young Family Foundation of Waterloo funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 15 | $500k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $415k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $463k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $472k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $383k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $375k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $375k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $429k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo Development Corporation | $310,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Waterloo Community Schools Foundation | $239,500 | 6 | 18% |
| Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation | $236,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wartburg College | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| City of Waterloo - Waterloo Leisure Services | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Monarch Research Project | $50,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Winnebago Council Boy Scouts of America #173 | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Grout Museum Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cedar Valley Soccer Club | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Young Family Foundation of Waterloo supplied at peak.
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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: Otto Schoitz Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · Black Hawk County Gaming Association · Lsb Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Young Family Foundation of Waterloo
- How much does Young Family Foundation of Waterloo give?
- Young Family Foundation of Waterloo reported 15 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Young Family Foundation of Waterloo fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (40%), Animals (29%), Education (10%).
- Who are Young Family Foundation of Waterloo's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waterloo Development Corporation ($310k), Waterloo Community Schools Foundation ($240k), Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation ($236k).
- Does Young Family Foundation of Waterloo fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Young Family Foundation of Waterloo accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Young Family Foundation of Waterloo?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Schoitz Foundation, Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation, Black Hawk County Gaming Association.
- Where is Young Family Foundation of Waterloo based?
- Young Family Foundation of Waterloo is based in IA.
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