Iowa State Bank Charitable Foundation
Sac City, IA · EIN 42-1448100. Reported 178 grants totalling $249,215 to 62 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Iowa State Bank Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $600. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $1,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $20,810. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loring Hospital Foundation | Sac City, IA | $43,890 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| East Sac County School District | Lake View, IA | $25,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lake View Community Club | Lake View, IA | $16,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Sac County Fair | Sac City, IA | $15,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lake View Community Foundation | Lake View, IA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sac Education Foundation | Sac City, IA | $12,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sac Community Foundation | Sac City, IA | $9,300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| St Anthony Foundation | Carroll, IA | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oldebolt Community Foundation | Des Moines, IA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sac Community Center | Sac City, IA | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carroll Co Conservation Foundation | Carroll, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iowa College Foundation | Des Moines, IA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lytton Area Emergency Service Agency | Sac City, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nemaha Historical Society | Auburn, NE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Region Xii Cog | Carroll, IA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Paul's Lutheran Church | Sac City, IA | $4,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Mary's Church | Sac City, IA | $3,680 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| New Opportunities | Sac City, IA | $3,600 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Peace Lutheran Church | Wall Lake, IA | $3,600 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Howard Center | Sac City, IA | $3,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Emanuel St John's Lutheran Church | Lytton, IA | $3,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Odebolt Community Center | Odebolt, IA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unity Church | Sac City, IA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kids World Inc | Sac City, IA | $2,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lake View Fire Department | Lake View, IA | $2,700 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| First Christian Church | Sac City, IA | $2,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Buena Vista University | Storm Lake, IA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $1,800 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Odebolt, IA | $1,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Main Street - Coon Rapids | Coon Rapids, IA | $1,700 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| United Funds of Odebolt | Odebolt, IA | $1,700 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sac City Museum | Sac City, IA | $1,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whiterock Conservancy | Coon Rapids, IA | $1,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Joseph's Parish | Wall Lake, IA | $1,550 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Odebolt | Odebolt, IA | $1,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Methodist Church | Coon Rapids, IA | $1,400 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Joseph's Church | Wall Lake, IA | $1,200 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Sac City Fire Department | Sac City, IA | $1,150 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sac City Public Library | Sac City, IA | $1,100 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| East Sac Rec Program | Sac City, IA | $850 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Library | Sac City, IA | $800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Iowa Swine Jackpot Association | Nevada, IA | $800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society | Sac City, IA | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Animal Rescue of Carroll | Carroll, IA | $620 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Opportunities | Carroll, IA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake View Foundation | Lake View, IA | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Black Hawk Lake Resoration Fund | Lake View, IA | $550 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Best in the West Corporation | Harlan, IA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Early Achievers 4H Club | Early, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iowa 4-H Foundation | Ames, IA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lake View Historic Preservation Commission | Lake View, IA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Odebolt Public Library | Odebolt, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wheatland Fund | Lake View, IA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Auburn Firefighters Association | Auburn, IA | $450 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Community School District | Ida Grove, IA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Odebolt Fire Department | Odebolt, IA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Shriners Hospital | Chicago, IL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sac City Summer Recreation | Sac City, IA | $175 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Hawk Lake Restoration Fund | Lake View, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blank Children's Hospital | Des Moines, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities | Chicago, IL | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sac County Relay for Life | Carroll, IA | $100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
47 of 62 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 68%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- East Sac Rec Program
Baseball/Softball Equipment - Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove Community School District
School Activities/After Prom
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 31 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 36 | $36,635 | $600 |
| 2022 | 35 | $35,785 | $600 |
| 2023 | 39 | $48,405 | $600 |
| 2024 | 41 | $63,780 | $600 |
| 2025 | 27 | $64,610 | $600 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $600. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Iowa State Bank Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 486, Sac City, IA, 50583. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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