GrantmakersIowa

Iowa Grantmaking Charities Making Grants of $5,000 - $25,000

These 46 organizations are based in Iowa and reported a median grant between $5,000 and $25,000 on their most recent Form 990 Schedule I filing. A typical grant is not a promise about any single gift -- some of an organization's grants are smaller than its median, some are larger -- but it is a reasonable signal for whether an application here fits the size of your ask.

46organizations in this range
$1.0Bgranted between them
6,364funding relationships mapped

A median grant in this range covers a meaningful program cost without asking for the multi-year commitment a capital campaign needs. A lot of general-operating and single-program requests land in this range.

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars -- the same convention as every list on this site. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific organization is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesDes Moines$11,0001,634$218.1M
Prairie Meadows Race Track and CasinoAltoona$15,000452$114.1M
Quad Cities Community FoundationBettendorf$14,500394$30.6M
Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueDubuque$12,536336$24.8M
Rsm US FoundationDavenport$12,000336$24.8M
Greater Cedar Rapids CommunityCedar Rapids$21,791302$37.9M
Iowa Health Care Association FoundationWest Des Moines$15,081242$10.1M
Greenstate Credit UnionNorth Liberty$10,000224$10.6M
Siouxland Community FoundationSioux City$10,000211$9.1M
Missouri River Historical DevelopmentSioux City$20,000195$14.3M
Delta Dental of Iowa FoundationJohnston$15,000176$11.0M
Community Foundation of Johnson CountyCoralville$14,572162$10.1M
Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift FundNorth Liberty$15,000157$15.9M
Believers Stewardship Services IncDubuque$16,400129$12.7M
Dubuque Racing Association LtdDubuque$20,000124$23.2M
Variety - the Children's Charity of IowaDes Moines$19,000109$11.5M
United Way and Community FoundationFort Dodge$10,72274$3.2M
The Catholic Foundation for theCedar Rapids$18,11272$11.9M
Community Foundation of GreaterMuscatine$11,89367$5.9M
Chrysalis FoundationWest Des Moines$5,10063$1.1M
Iowa Pork Producers AssociationClive$18,73860$10.6M
Community Foundation for Western IowaCouncil Bluffs$20,00054$14.2M
Comm Foundation of Carroll County IncCarroll$12,00051$1.4M
Veridian Credit UnionWaterloo$10,00050$2.3M
Heartland Charitable TrustDubuque$15,00049$2.1M
Keokuk Area Community FoundationKeokuk$10,26745$1.9M
Greater Poweshiek Community FoundationGrinnell$9,43244$1.6M
Iowa Women's FoundationCoralville$10,00043$836K
South Central Iowa Community FoundationChariton$10,45042$1.3M
United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-StatesDubuque$23,50036$3.5M
Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa CorpDes Moines$23,54235$144.3M
Mercy Medical CenterCedar Rapids$15,00034$47.1M
The Greater Jefferson CountyFairfield$10,00033$1.5M
Mercy Health Services - Iowa CorpMason City$16,25032$4.4M
Upper Mississippi Gaming CorpMcgregor$15,74730$2.5M
Casey's Charities IncAnkeny$17,25028$10.6M
Orchard PlaceDes Moines$6,00028$276K
Housing Trust Fund of JohnsonIowa City$16,47725$1.0M
East Central Iowa Housing Trust FunCedar Rapids$16,31325$1.0M
Dupaco Community Credit UnionDubuque$12,50025$3.0M
Marshalltown Area United WayMarshalltown$19,96725$2.5M
The Wfg Foundation IncCedar Rapids$15,57125$1.5M
Central Iowa Hospital CorporationDes Moines$20,00024$170.1M
Humanities IowaAmes$10,00021$315K
Trees Forever IncMarion$10,00021$306K
United Way of North Central IowaMason City$13,30020$966K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Every median grant on this page describes the grants reported, not all of them, so the real typical grant is likely lower than shown. This is also why these figures cannot be compared to the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site.

Other grant sizes in Iowa

$25,000 - $100,000Grantmaking Charities in Iowa

Foundations report their grants differently, so their median grants are not directly comparable to the ones on this page -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so a private foundation's median reflects every grant it made, while the Schedule I figures on this page do not. See foundations in the same range anyway.

New Iowa organizations, as they file

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