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Foundations That Fund Recreation & Sports in Iowa

Imperigo has identified 161 funders that made 1,150 grants totaling $46.2M to 248 recreation & sports organizations in Iowa, with a median grant of $12K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Recreation & Sports Funding in Iowa

Total granted $46.2M
Funders 161
Grants 1,150
Organizations funded 248

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Mercy Health Network Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2020 · 17.3% of their giving
$20K
27. Community Foundation of Johnson County
8 grants to 5 organizations · largest $154K · through 2024 · 1.5% of their giving
$207K
28. The Greater Jefferson County Foundation
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024 · 3.0% of their giving
$85K
29. Life Investors Fortunaires Club Charitable Foundation Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2025 · 16.0% of their giving
$16K
30. The Kernels Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2023 · 35.3% of their giving
$12K
31. Comm Foundation of Carroll County Inc
4 grants to 3 organizations · largest $25K · through 2023 · 3.6% of their giving
$57K
32. Czechoslovak Society of America DBA Lodge Prokop Velky 137CSA
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2020 · 24.6% of their giving
$10K
33. Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2023 · 3.6% of their giving
$50K
34. Taylor Family Farms Foundation Inc
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $30K · through 2025 · 1.9% of their giving
$85K
35. Southwest Iowa Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2020 · 3.0% of their giving
$50K
36. United Way of East Central Iowa
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2024
$190K
37. South Central Iowa Community Founda
6 grants to 4 organizations · largest $26K · through 2022 · 2.4% of their giving
$59K
38. Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
14 grants to 7 organizations · largest $43K · through 2024
$189K
39. Csb Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2024 · 2.9% of their giving
$30K
40. American Future Fund
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2019 · 2.7% of their giving
$30K
41. Minnesota Wild Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2024 · 1.9% of their giving
$40K
42. Keokuk Area Community Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $33K · through 2022 · 1.6% of their giving
$33K
43. Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $250K · through 2019
$250K
44. Nailba Charitable Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2020 · 2.6% of their giving
$20K
45. Black Hawk County Gaming Association
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $65K · through 2025
$130K
46. Marshalltown Chamber of Commerce
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2020 · 6.3% of their giving
$8K
47. Appanoose County Foundation Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $7K · through 2022 · 3.7% of their giving
$12K
48. Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine
7 grants to 2 organizations · largest $22K · through 2024
$80K
49. Friends of Rock Valley
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $15K · through 2025 · 3.0% of their giving
$15K
50. Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $250K · through 2021
$275K

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

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