Education Funding in Iowa
Total granted
$1.2B
Funders
607
Grants
6,525
Organizations funded
402
Iowa · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Education in Iowa
Imperigo has identified 607 funders that made 6,525 grants totaling $1.2B to 402 education organizations in Iowa, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 4 of 4
$260K
$255K
$1.2M
$720K
$7.8M
$3.2M
$876K
$16.8M
116.
Seattle Foundation
$3.1M
$1.8M
$998K
$4.5M
137.
United Way Worldwide
$1.2M
$1.1M
$8.4M
$6.6M
$2.4M
$1.2M
$847K
$1.0M
$1.0M
$868K
$1.5M
$1.2M
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education 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. 16 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.
Other Causes Funded in Iowa
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 education work, with an address in Iowa. Grants are counted from the 2025 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 education funding in Iowa, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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