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Fnnb Foundation

Newton, IA · EIN 68-0512765. Reported 56 grants totalling $65,078 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$65,078granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$23,078assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Fnnb Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,800; the smallest was $200 and the largest $4,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
23 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
33 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Newton Salvation ArmyNewton, IA$7,100442024
Unity Point FoundationDes Moines, IA$7,000332024
City of Newton IowaNewton, IA$5,600442024
Newton Christian Day School AssnNewton, IA$5,500442024
United Way of Jasper CountyNewton, IA$5,400332024
Mercy One FoundationDes Moines, IA$4,965332024
Dollars for ScholarsNewton, IA$4,000222024
Newton Dollars for ScholarsNewton, IA$4,000222022
Newton Community School DistrictNewton, IA$3,000422022
Mercy HospitalDes Moines, IA$2,400112021
Unity Point HospitalsDes Moines, IA$2,000112022
Jasper County IowaNewton, IA$1,500332024
Newton Public LibraryNewton, IA$1,250112023
Newton YMCANewton, IA$1,250112022
Iowa Hospital Education and Research FoundationDes Moines, IA$1,200112021
Jasper County Conservation BoardNewton, IA$1,000112022
Jasper County Historical Society of IowaNewton, IA$1,000222024
Newton Centre for Arts & ArtistsNewton, IA$1,000112022
Jasper Community FoundationNewton, IA$900442024
Newton Young Mens Christian AssociationNewton, IA$763112021
Pi FoundationNewton, IA$750112021
Hindu Temple & Cultural Center of IowaMadrid, IA$500112021
Jasper County AuditorNewton, IA$500112021
Jasper County Historical MuseumNewton, IA$500112022
Jasper County Museum FoundationNewton, IA$500112021
Newton Senior High SchoolNewton, IA$500112023
Project Awake IncNewton, IA$500222023
Newton Arboretum & Botanical GardensNewton, IA$250112024
Tim Tebow Foundation IncJacksonville, FL$250112021

13 of 29 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Education
1 grant
Environment
1 grant
Religion
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$16,063$756
202217$19,000$1,000
202312$14,265$1,375
202411$15,750$1,600

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in Iowa. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Iowa
$65K
Florida
$250

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsPrairie Meadows Race Track and Casino4 shared recipientsFred Maytag Family Foundation3 shared recipientsPella Rolscreen Foundation3 shared recipientsSchiller Family Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Iowa.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fnnb Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 100 N Second Avenue West, Newton, IA, 50208. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 68-0512765 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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