Casey's Charities Inc
Ankeny, IA · EIN 26-2332243. Reported 78 grants totalling $10.6M to 71 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,250. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $46,000; the smallest was $5,700 and the largest $1,589,660. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | Daniel Island, SC | $2,202,655 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation Greater Des Moines | Des Moines, IA | $1,589,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $1,274,482 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation | Reston, VA | $1,024,339 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope for the Warriors | Springfield, VA | $1,014,340 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Great Outdoors Foundation | Wdm, IA | $800,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Iowa Special Olympics Inc | Grimes, IA | $790,385 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Drake University | Des Moines, IA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Central Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $183,129 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $146,945 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Independence Foundation Incorporated | Owensboro, KY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ray Miller Elem | Kirksville, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Austin East Highmagnet | Knoxville, TN | $46,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Middlesboro Middle School | Middlesboro, KY | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Belle Plaine Elem | Belle Plaine, KS | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lombard Sd 44 | Lombard, IL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Des Moines Community Playhouse | Des Moines, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edwards Elementary School PTO Inc | Ames, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Faith Christian School | Kearney, NE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jenks Public Schools Foundation Inc | Jenks, OK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mt Olive Lutheran Church | Delano, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Richland R-IV | Richland, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seymour Comm School District | Seymour, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee | Maryville, TN | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edgewood Middle School | Trenton, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Labette County High School | Altamont, KS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mmcru Marcus Elementary | Marcus, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Testament Church of Alexandria | Alexandria, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northmoor Es | Moore, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southeast Warren Primary | Milo, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indianola Community Youth Foundation | Indianola, IA | $18,812 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chisholm Es | Enid, OK | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maquoketa Valley Comm School District | Delhi, IA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Matthew School | Cedar Rapids, IA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Terre Haute East Foursquare Church | Terre Haute, IN | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston R-I | Houston, MO | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue River Valley JR-SR High Sch | New Castle, IN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Viburnum High | Viburnum, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West High School | Knoxville, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wt Elementary PTO | Cincinnati, OH | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harry Andersen Middle School | Omaha, NE | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Msd Wayne Township | Indianapolis, IN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waterford Graded J1 School District | Waterford, WI | $11,770 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Boone, IA | $11,320 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wanda Kendall Elem School | Watseka, IL | $10,563 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Serving Greater Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aurora Public Schools | Aurora, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Drexel R-IV | Drexel, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Farmington High School | Farmington, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hardin Valley Academy Athletic Council | Knoxville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heritage Elementary PTO | Ankeny, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillsboro High School | Hillsboro, ND | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Iowa Inc | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | West Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lincoln Grade School | Washington, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Montezuma Elementary School | Montezuma, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palmyra R-I | Palmyra, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prairie Grove Middle School | Prairie Grove, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Westville Hs | Westville, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whittle Springs Middle School | Knoxville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Woodson | Yates Center, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Croix Falls Elementary | Saint Croix Falls, WI | $8,656 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Team Parent Group | Dodge Center, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lourdes Central Catholic School | Nebraska City, NE | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morrilton Elementary School | Morrilton, AR | $7,540 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evansville Community School District | Evansville, WI | $6,425 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anna Jonesboro Chsd 81 | Anna, IL | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clinton Intermediate School | Clinton, MO | $6,176 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Feed the Children Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harry C Morrison Elementary School | Fort Smith, AR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cooper Elementary School | Bella Vista, AR | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 71 (8%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Blackbaud Giving Fund
FUNDING OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS - Special Olympics Iowa
LOCAL CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS - American Red Cross
LOCAL CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 71 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $4,276,964 | $500,000 |
| 2022 | 8 | $3,259,311 | $457,169 |
| 2023 | 62 | $3,064,722 | $13,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
39% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Casey's Charities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 72 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1 Se Convenience Blvd, Ankeny, IA, 50021.
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