Funder Standing / Iowa West Foundation

Iowa West Foundation

IA · EIN 421391990 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

31 of 96 organizations Iowa West Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 36.0%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
36.0%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$25,000
Range $1,585 – $3,166,667
Repeat-dollar share
80.0%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
CITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS AND SINCnew$3,166,667
CITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS$2,775,327
GREEN HILLS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY$1,350,000
IOWA WEST FOUNDATION INITIATIVE$1,342,527
COUNCIL BLUFFS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$537,500
NEIGHBORWORKS HOME SOLUTIONS$411,551
SOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT$393,570
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE$373,750
ANAWIM HOUSING$360,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS$316,014
IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$307,201
COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONnew$299,242
AVENUE SCHOLARS SOUTHWEST IOWA$271,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS$250,000
ADVANCED SOUTHWEST IOWA CORPORATIONnew$225,000
712 INITIATIVE$216,407
CITY OF DENISONnew$205,000
POTTAWATTAMIE ARTS CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT$200,000
TOGETHER INCnew$200,000
LEWIS CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$187,500
SOUTHWEST IOWA NATURE TRAILSnew$175,000
NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES$130,000
AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET$125,000
OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC$112,293
CITY OF VILLISCAnew$100,000

Showing the 25 largest of 96 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Iowa West Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.