Iowa Women's Foundation
Coralville, IA · EIN 42-1431092. Reported 56 grants totalling $835,500 to 43 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 Iowa Women's Foundation, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P58) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 18% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $35,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc | Des Moines, IA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Girls Incorporated of Sioux City | Sioux City, IA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Iowa Jag Inc | Des Moines, IA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Catherine Mcauley Center Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Girls on the Run of Eastern Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $40,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Future Net | Wdm, IA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hawkeye Community College Foundation | Waterloo, IA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Homes of Oakridge Human Services | Des Moines, IA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| YWCA of Clinton Iowa | Clinton, IA | $34,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Iowa City Sober Living | Iowa City, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake City Day Care Inc | Lake City, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Newbo City Market | Cedar Rapids, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sckic Inc | Des Moines, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Resource Center | Des Moines, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Mark Youth Enrichment | Dubuque, IA | $22,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waypoint Services for Women Children and Families | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Coordinated Child Care 4-C S Committee of Johnson County | Iowa City, IA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sumner Daycare & Learning Center Inc | Sumner, IA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christian Community Development | Waterloo, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community United Child Care Centers Inc | Cedar Falls, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc | Council Blfs, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Roland | Roland, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Discoveries Learning Center | Denver, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc | Des Moines, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Charger Early Learning Center Inc | Guthrie Ctr, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little Knights Learning Center | Dysart, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Knights Learning Center - La Porte City Campus | La Porte City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Micah House Corporation | Council Blfs, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mount Pleasant Community Childcare | Mt Pleasant, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Noble Initiative Foundation | Griswold, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ringgold County Child Care Center Inc | Mount Ayr, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | Iowa City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shooting Star Childcare | Elkhart, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sprouts Early Learning Academy | Carlisle, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| To the Rescue | Cedar Rapids, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waverly Child Care & Preschool | Waverly, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayland Area Child Care Organization | Wayland, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Williamsburg Community Child Care Center | Williamsburg, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women Food and Agriculture Network | Ames, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wildcat Abc Child Care | Carlisle, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opening Doors | Dubuque, IA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois Inc | Bettendorf, IA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 43 (23%) 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.
- Lutheran Services in Iowa
Immigrant and Refugee Child Care Business Development Program - Dorothy's House
SERVICE EXPANSION FOR SURVIVORS OF TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION - Iowa Jobs for Americas Graduates (ijag)
REMOVING BARRIERS TO CAREER EXPLORATION FOR IOWA GIRLS - The Kids Spot
FURNISHING CHILD CARE CENTER CLASSROOMS - Young Women's Resource Center
PARENTING AND LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM - Girls Inc of Sioux City
Giving Girls Trade Skills For Life
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 43 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 | 14 | $135,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $355,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 11 | $180,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $165,000 | $25,000 |
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 $10,000 -- 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 Iowa Women's Foundation'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 8 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: Po Box 5044, Coralville, IA, 52241.
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