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Audubon State Bank Charitable Foundation

Audubon, IA · EIN 42-1366431. Reported 87 grants totalling $203,265 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$475median grant
$203,265granted, 2021-2024
40organizations funded
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$106,099assets, latest filing

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. Audubon 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.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $475. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $850; the smallest was $25 and the largest $101,755. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
69 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Audubon Recreation FoundationAudubon, IA$156,835442024
Audubon Community SchoolsAudubon, IA$6,500112024
Audubon Fire & Rescue AssociationAudubon, IA$4,450442024
Whiterock ConservancyCoon Rapids, IA$4,000442024
Eternity ChurchAudubon, IA$3,225442024
American Cancer SocietyDes Moines, IA$2,825442024
Friendship Home FoundationAudubon, IA$2,650442024
Audubon County Early Childhood OrgAudubon, IA$2,600332024
Bethany Evangelical Free ChurchBrayton, IA$2,500442024
Annunciation Catholic ChurchCoon Rapids, IA$2,000442024
Audubon County Ag SocietyAudubon, IA$2,000222024
Our Savior's Lutheran ChurchAudubon, IA$1,900442024
Audubon Co Memorial Hosp FoundationAudubon, IA$1,650112024
First United Methodist ChurchAudubon, IA$1,175332023
Audubon Community CinemaAudubon, IA$1,000112024
Pheasants ForeverAudubon, IA$1,000222024
Audubon Church of ChristAudubon, IA$850112024
The Children's NestAudubon, IA$850112023
Audubon County Historical SocietyHamlin, IA$750222022
Exira Public LibraryExira, IA$500112024
St Patricks Catholic ChurchAudubon, IA$500112024
Blessman InternationalUrbandale, IA$400442024
Wounded Warrior ProjectTopeka, KS$400442024
Tori's Angels FoundationPanora, IA$350222024
JdrfDes Moines, IA$325332024
Abide NetworkOmaha, NE$300332024
Wildwood Hills RanchSt Charles, IA$300222022
JdrfOmaha, NE$240222023
Crossroad Community ChurchGrimes, IA$200112023
National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases AssociationBoston, MA$200112021
Audubon County Crime StoppersAudubon, IA$100112022
Audubon FFAAudubon, IA$100112021
Ballet Des MoinesWest Des Moines, IA$100112021
Blank Children's HospitalDes Moines, IA$100112021
ELCAChicago, IL$100112024
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesDes Moines, IA$100112021
Stables 4 JedManning, IA$100112023
Audubon Sports BoostersAudubon, IA$40112021
Audubon Congregate MealsExira, IA$25112023
Good Neighbor CenterAudubon, IA$25112024

21 of 40 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Diseases & Disorders
9 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$8,640$225
202220$108,950$300
202320$59,725$387
202425$25,950$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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Iowa. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Iowa
$202K
Nebraska
$540
Kansas
$400
Massachusetts
$200
Illinois
$100

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $475. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Iowa.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Audubon State Bank Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 307 Broadway St Po Box 149, Audubon, IA, 50025. 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.

EIN 42-1366431 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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