Iowa · Nonprofit
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,189 to it, the largest being Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ($213,466). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $407k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation does
Programs
Community Support Services - provide back office services, including accounting, human resources, donor acknolwedgement and management, and general services to help local nonporifts build capacity and promote collaboration.
$385,261 spentJPK - Provide funding through a mental health consortium for financially insecure indivudals to obtain therapy as needed. Over 180 patients were helped with funding of therapy and other needs.
$95,091 spentTiger Packs - Provide weekly food items to food insecure students within the commpunity. Over 230 kids served each week, plus food provided to middle school and high school.
$59,870 spentImagine Grinnell - Creates a vibrant, sustainable, and healthy community through various programs including giving gardens, tree planting, plate to plant, and many others.
$69,850 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.2M to $7.7M (+7%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Julie Gosselink
President & CEO
Board chair
David Clay
Inevstment Chair, Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $82k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $863k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest C W Ahrens Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 75% · 2022 52% · 2023 72% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $194k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation?
- Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,189 to it, the largest being Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation ($213,466). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $407,189 in grants to Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation?
- Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $213,466 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing