Iowa · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Health & Medicine in Iowa

Imperigo has identified 319 funders that made 3,084 grants totaling $1.9B to 264 health & medicine organizations in Iowa, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Health & Medicine Funding in Iowa

Total granted $1.9B
Funders 319
Grants 3,084
Organizations funded 264

Top Funders — page 4 of 4

208. Genesis Health Services FoundationRegrantor
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $1.4M · through 2024 · 90.2% of their giving
$7.1M
209. Grinnell Regional Medical CenterRegrantor
17 grants to 9 organizations · largest $4.8M · through 2024 · 91.1% of their giving
$6.9M
210. Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City FoundationRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $3.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$6.9M
211. Trinity Health FoundationRegrantor
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.7M · through 2024 · 91.7% of their giving
$6.6M
212. St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City IowaRegrantor
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $1.7M · through 2024 · 99.4% of their giving
$6.1M
213. United Way of Central IowaRegrantor
35 grants to 7 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 11.6% of their giving
$9.6M
214. Dubuque Mercy Health FoundationRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$5.5M
215. Variety - the Children's Charity of IowaRegrantor
129 grants to 22 organizations · largest $307K · through 2024 · 34.7% of their giving
$5.5M
216. Covenant Foundation IncRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.6M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$5.0M
217. Delta Dental of Iowa FoundationRegrantor
67 grants to 29 organizations · largest $991K · through 2024 · 40.1% of their giving
$5.0M
218. Finley Health Foundation IncRegrantor
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 75.6% of their giving
$4.3M
219. Mercy Health Services - Iowa CorpRegrantor
17 grants to 5 organizations · largest $526K · through 2024 · 54.9% of their giving
$3.9M
220. Unitypoint at HomeRegrantor
7 grants to 2 organizations · largest $3.1M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.5M
221. Sartori Health Care Foundation IncRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $909K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.5M
222. Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital FoundationRegrantor
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.1M · through 2024 · 95.8% of their giving
$2.8M
223. Mercy Medical Center Foundation - North IowaRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$2.6M
224. The Finley HospitalRegrantor
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $484K · through 2024 · 96.8% of their giving
$2.3M
225. On with Life FoundationRegrantor
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.1M · through 2024 · 18.6% of their giving
$2.2M
226. Unitypoint Health-Marshalltown FoundationRegrantor
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $807K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.7M
227. Mercycare Service CorporationRegrantor
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $318K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.7M
228. Mercy College of Health SciencesRegrantor
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $488K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.6M
229. St Luke'sjones Regional Medical CenterRegrantor
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.5M · through 2020 · 99.3% of their giving
$1.5M
230. Mercy Medical CenterRegrantor
17 grants to 5 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2024 · 6.5% of their giving
$4.3M
231. Grinnell Regional Medical Center FoundationRegrantor
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $449K · through 2024 · 91.7% of their giving
$1.2M
232. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland FoundationRegrantor
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $381K · through 2023 · 17.5% of their giving
$1.0M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to health & medicine 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. 13 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 health & medicine 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 health & medicine funding in Iowa, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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