Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc
Carroll, IA · EIN 20-1413585. Reported 91 grants totalling $1,412,731 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. For Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $43,067. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coon Rapids Bayard Comm Schoo | Coon Rapids, IA | $134,655 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Lake View Ia | Lake View, IA | $84,162 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Wall Lake Ia | Wall Lake, IA | $68,805 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sac County Conservation Cente | Sac City, IA | $63,118 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manning Betterment Foundation | Manning, IA | $48,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Odebolt Ia | Odebolt, IA | $47,609 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kuemper Catholic School Foundation Inc | Carroll, IA | $47,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Auburn Ia | Auburn, IA | $43,820 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Early Ia | Early, IA | $43,710 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Sac City Ia | Sac City, IA | $43,067 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hope Village Foundation | Carroll, IA | $42,116 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carroll Athletic Association | Carroll, IA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sac County Fair Board | Sac City, IA | $39,211 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Dedham Ia | Dedham, IA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sac County Historical Society Inc | Odebolt, IA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carroll Co Conservation Board | Carroll, IA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Templeton Ia | Templeton, IA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carroll Area Child Care Center Inc | Carroll, IA | $34,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Manning | Manning, IA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Anthony Foundation | Carroll, IA | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Coon Rapids Ia | Coon Rapids, IA | $30,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sac Community Center | Sac City, IA | $26,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mat Rats Wrestling Club | Odebolt, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Halbur Development Corporation | Halbur, IA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Lidderdale | Lidderdale, IA | $21,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carroll Public Library Foundation | Carroll, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Nemaha Ia | Nemaha, IA | $19,130 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Glidden Ia | Glidden, IA | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maple River Area Park Inc | Carroll, IA | $18,737 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arcadia Betterment & Development Corporation | Arcadia, IA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manning Community Foundation | Manning, IA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Legion | Breda, IA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Schaller Ia | Schaller, IA | $14,253 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines | Des Moines, IA | $12,286 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arcadia Firefighters Association | Arcadia, IA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Carmel Faith Foundation | Carroll, IA | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Animal Rescue of Carroll Inc | Carroll, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breda Day Care Center Inc | Breda, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Sac County Comm Sch Dist | Lake View, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotary International Carroll Rotary Club | Carroll, IA | $9,252 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Arcadia Ia | Arcadia, IA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Lanesboro Ia | Lanesboro, IA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Educational Outreach Foundation for the Carroll County Fair | Coon Rapids, IA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carroll Arts Council | Carroll, IA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carroll County Conservation Foundation | Carroll, IA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Carroll Ia | Carroll, IA | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manning Fire and Rescue Assoc | Manning, IA | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Main Street Coon Rapids | Coon Rapids, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Angels Forever Inc | Carroll, IA | $6,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lil Wildcat Education Center Inc | Glidden, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Anthony Regional Hospital and Nursing Home | Carroll, IA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
26 of 51 (51%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- City of Sac City Ia
Sac City Library addition & playgro - Sac County Ia
Sauk rail trail reconstruction - City of Odebolt Ia
Vet memorial, pool renovation - Carroll Athlethic Association
ball park seating & upgrtades - City of Wall Lake Ia
repurpose school into public Rec - City of Manning
train & art projects, playground eq
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 51 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 | 19 | $334,128 | $19,130 |
| 2022 | 20 | $345,109 | $18,105 |
| 2023 | 26 | $358,909 | $11,558 |
| 2024 | 26 | $374,585 | $9,272 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
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 $12,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 721 N Main St, Carroll, IA, 51401.
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