South Central Iowa Community Foundation
Chariton, IA · EIN 42-1411234. Reported 100 grants totalling $1,319,091 to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For South Central Iowa Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,450. Half of what it reported fell between $7,665 and $17,010; the smallest was $5,035 and the largest $55,931. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringgold County Public Health | Mount Ayr, IA | $108,245 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princess Theater Troupe Inc | Mount Ayr, IA | $86,081 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Diagonal Community School | Diagonal, IA | $64,063 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines | Des Moines, IA | $55,931 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwestern Community College | Creston, IA | $55,072 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $54,785 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mount Ayr Community School | Mount Ayr, IA | $51,556 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Graceland University | Lamoni, IA | $48,910 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ringgold County Teen Center Inc | Mount Ayr, IA | $43,980 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mayflower Heritage Christian School | Creston, IA | $42,260 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lamoni Food Pantry | Lamoni, IA | $37,568 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Clarke County Conservation | Osceola, IA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Murray Community School | Murray, IA | $31,401 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Scholarship America Inc | Afton, IA | $30,680 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Leon Chamber of Commerce | Leon, IA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lucas County Fair Association | Chariton, IA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ringgold County Fair Board | Mount Ayr, IA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Union County Conservation Board | Afton, IA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Decatur Community School | Grand River, IA | $29,896 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Decatur County Conservation Board | Leon, IA | $28,961 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ringgold County Community Foundation | Mount Ayr, IA | $26,850 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Decatur County Historical Society Inc | Leon, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dmacc | Ankeny, IA | $23,550 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Southern Prairie Family Fitness Center | Creston, IA | $20,230 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $19,575 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northwest Missouri State University | Maryville, MO | $18,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Chariton | Chariton, IA | $15,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lamoni Community School | Lamoni, IA | $14,642 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ringgold County Child Care Center Inc | Mount Ayr, IA | $14,626 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Diagonal Community Development Cooperation | Diagonal, IA | $11,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chariton Chamber & Development Charitable Foundation | Chariton, IA | $11,098 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lucas County Humane Society | Chariton, IA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Tingley | Tingley, IA | $10,670 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Russell | Russell, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lucas County Auditor | Chariton, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Mount Ayr | Mount Ayr, IA | $9,775 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Redding | Redding, IA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ringgold County Community Foundation | Mount Ayr, IA | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Decatur County Development Corporation | Leon, IA | $8,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ringgold County Hospital | Mount Ayr, IA | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lamoni Community Daycare Funshine | Lamoni, IA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Ayr Preservation Inc | Mount Ayr, IA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chariton Ia 4TH of July Committe | Chariton, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City of Lamoni | Lamoni, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Diagonal Printing and Historical Museum Inc | Diagonal, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| High Lakes Outdoor Alliance | Afton, IA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Des Moines Area Community College Educational Services Association | Des Moines, IA | $6,970 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ringgold Outdoor Alliance | Mount Ayr, IA | $6,546 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Civil Arts United Inc | Leon, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Union County Child Care Center | Creston, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chariton High School | Chariton, IA | $5,879 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lamoni Service Center Association | Lamoni, IA | $5,848 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clarke Community School District | Osceola, IA | $5,668 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Northern Iowa | Cedar Falls, IA | $5,035 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
19 of 56 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 56 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 33 | $376,361 | $9,041 |
| 2021 | 22 | $296,094 | $10,250 |
| 2022 | 24 | $279,916 | $9,280 |
| 2023 | 21 | $366,720 | $13,015 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,450 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from South Central Iowa Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 705 Ilion Ave, Chariton, IA, 50049.
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