How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Iowa?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Iowa, currently Feeding America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Iowa from out of state.

Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Iowa?

Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Iowa, $11M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Iowa?

$41M reached 80 food and agriculture organizations in Iowa, from 312 funders. 35% came from funders also based in Iowa.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Iowa · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Iowa

Three organizations take 70% of all food and agriculture funding in Iowa, led by Food Bank of Iowa.

$41M

granted

organizations

35%

from in-state

The short version

312 funders gave $41M to 80 food and agriculture organizations in Iowa across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
35% of that came from funders also based in Iowa; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Iowa is Feeding America, at $11M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Food Bank of Iowa, at $14M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Iowa

The funders giving the most to food and agriculture organizations in Iowa, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Feeding America$11M 2American Online Giving Foundation Inc$8M 3Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines$2M 4Black Hawk County Gaming Association$1M 5The Blackbaud Giving Fund$934k 6Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$880k 7Quad Cities Community Foundation$759k 8Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$720k 9Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino$676k 10Iowa Farm Bureau Federation$632k

Food and agriculture organizations in Iowa that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Food Bank of Iowa$14M River Bend Food Reservoir$10M

70 other food and agriculture organizations$6M

Northeast Iowa Food Bank$5M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Iowa

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Start with the funders already active in Iowa
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Iowa are Feeding America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
65% of food and agriculture money in Iowa comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Iowa.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Iowa?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Iowa, currently Feeding America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Iowa from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Iowa?: Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Iowa, $11M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Iowa?: $41M reached 80 food and agriculture organizations in Iowa, from 312 funders. 35% came from funders also based in Iowa.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.