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Foundations That Fund Crime & Legal Aid in Iowa

Imperigo has identified 80 funders that made 591 grants totaling $44.6M to 30 crime & legal aid organizations in Iowa, with a median grant of $12K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2024.

Crime & Legal Aid Funding in Iowa

Total granted $44.6M
Funders 80
Grants 591
Organizations funded 30

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Iowa Legal Aid Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $854K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$2.3M
2. Legal Services Corporation
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $5.2M · through 2023
$21.0M
3. Marshalltown Area United Way
12 grants to 2 organizations · largest $127K · through 2024 · 18.8% of their giving
$706K
4. United Way of East Central Iowa
15 grants to 3 organizations · largest $176K · through 2024 · 4.8% of their giving
$1.2M
5. Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.0M · through 2024 · 2.1% of their giving
$2.5M
6. Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moines
13 grants to 3 organizations · largest $138K · through 2024 · 3.3% of their giving
$1.5M
7. United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $43K · through 2024 · 5.7% of their giving
$307K
8. Building America's Future
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $500K · through 2023 · 1.4% of their giving
$1.0M
9. Aging Resources of Central Iowa
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $93K · through 2024 · 3.1% of their giving
$439K
10. Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
17 grants to 5 organizations · largest $110K · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$724K
11. Cedar Valley United Way
14 grants to 3 organizations · largest $37K · through 2024 · 3.8% of their giving
$289K
12. Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn
179 grants to 9 organizations · largest $150K · through 2024
$1.8M
13. Iowa State Bar Foundation
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $10K · through 2024 · 12.1% of their giving
$58K
14. United Way of Johnson & Washington Count
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $42K · through 2024 · 3.0% of their giving
$219K
15. Community Foundation of Johnson County
13 grants to 4 organizations · largest $72K · through 2024 · 1.8% of their giving
$261K
16. Heritage Area Agency on Aging
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $73K · through 2024 · 1.7% of their giving
$271K
17. United Way of North Central Iowa
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $23K · through 2022 · 5.4% of their giving
$72K
18. Elderbridge Agency on Aging
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $48K · through 2024 · 1.5% of their giving
$219K
19. United Way of the Midlands
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $75K · through 2024
$289K
20. Quad Cities Community Foundation
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $41K · through 2024
$232K
21. Fredrikson & Byron Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $14K · through 2024 · 1.7% of their giving
$62K
22. Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $18K · through 2024
$120K
23. Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2020 · 2.2% of their giving
$40K
24. Otto Schoitz Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $65K · through 2019
$110K
25. The Chicago Community Trust
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $2.1M · through 2023
$2.2M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to crime & legal aid work in Iowa, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 11 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering crime & legal aid work, with an address in Iowa. Grants are counted from the 2024 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable crime & legal aid funding in Iowa, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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