Funding search · EIN 203598346 · Des Moines, IA
Bravo Greater Des Moines
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 261
- grants reported
- $20.1M
- total given
- 2021–2024
- filing years
- $30,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
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- Des Moines Performing Arts4 grants · $1.8M
- Edmundson Art Foundation Inc Dba Des Moines Art Center4 grants · $1.8M
- Science Center of Iowa4 grants · $1.3M
- Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden4 grants · $965,000
- Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation4 grants · $913,600
- Des Moines Symphony Association4 grants · $897,800
- Blank Park Zoo Foundation4 grants · $850,000
- Ballet Des Moines4 grants · $730,480
- Des Moines Metro Opera2 grants · $627,925
- Des Moines Community Playhouse4 grants · $625,179
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 261 grants.
- $550,000
Des Moines Performing Arts · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $510,000
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc Dba Des Moines Art Center · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $500,000
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc Dba Des Moines Art Center · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $500,000
Des Moines Performing Arts · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $476,000
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc Dba Des Moines Art Center · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding, capital project funding
- $410,000
Science Center of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $400,000
Des Moines Performing Arts · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $398,950
Des Moines Performing Arts · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $375,000
Blank Park Zoo Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $341,500
Des Moines Metro Opera · Indianola, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $332,075
Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $318,500
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc Dba Des Moines Art Center · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $316,400
Des Moines Metro Opera · Indianola, IA · 2021
General funding
- $305,200
Science Center of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $295,000
Des Moines Metro Opera · Indianola, IA · 2022
General funding
- $295,000
Science Center of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $289,580
Ballet Des Moines · West Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $286,425
Des Moines Metro Opera · Indianola, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $280,000
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $260,600
Des Moines Symphony Association · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $246,283
Des Moines Film Society · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $245,000
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $245,000
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $240,750
Science Center of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $240,179
Des Moines Community Playhouse · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $237,775
Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $232,000
Des Moines Symphony Association · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $220,400
Des Moines Symphony Association · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $205,500
Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $198,910
Mainframe Studios · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $195,000
Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $190,900
Ballet Des Moines · West Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $184,800
Des Moines Symphony Association · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $175,650
Arts for the City · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $175,200
Living History Farms Foundation · Urbandale, IA · 2021
General funding
- $175,000
Blank Park Zoo Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $175,000
Des Moines Community Playhouse · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $163,025
Living History Farms Foundation · Urbandale, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $159,750
Salisbury House Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $150,000
Salisbury House Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $150,000
Blank Park Zoo Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $150,000
Blank Park Zoo Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $138,250
Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $131,575
Des Moines Arts Festival · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $125,875
State Historical Museum · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $125,000
Ballet Des Moines · West Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $125,000
Capital City Pride Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $125,000
Des Moines Arts Festival · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $125,000
Mainframe Studios · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $125,000
Des Moines Arts Festival · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $125,000
Ballet Des Moines · West Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $122,700
Living History Farms Foundation · Urbandale, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $122,000
Mainframe Studios · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding, capital project funding
- $120,000
Des Moines Community Playhouse · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $119,500
Iowa Historical Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $118,750
Capital City Pride Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $111,575
Iowa Arts-in-Education Dba Artforce Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $106,250
Des Moines Arts Festival · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $105,760
Greater Des Moines Music Coalition · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $101,600
Greater Des Moines Music Coalition · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $101,350
Des Moines Film Society · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $101,150
Iowa Historical Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $100,000
City of Clive · Clive, IA · 2022
Public arts grants - icon
- $99,850
City of Bondurant · Bondurant, IA · 2023
Public art grant
- $98,400
Cultureall · Urbandale, IA · 2021
General funding
- $95,300
Salisbury House Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding, capital project funding
- $93,000
Living History Farms Foundation · Urbandale, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $92,700
Civic Music Association of Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $90,350
Cultureall · Urbandale, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $90,000
Des Moines Community Playhouse · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $88,650
Cultureall · Urbandale, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $88,000
Downtown Events Group · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $84,700
Iowa Asian Alliance · West Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $83,430
Civic Music Association of Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $82,650
Girls Rock Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $80,100
Iowa Historical Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $79,200
Downtown Events Group · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $75,000
Cultureall · Urbandale, IA · 2022
General funding
- $74,385
Girls Rock Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $71,100
Iowa Arts in Education · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $67,575
Iowa Arts in Education Dba Artforce Iowa · Dubuque, IA · 2022
General funding
- $66,200
Greater Des Moines Music Coalition · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $64,050
Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $64,000
City of Grimes · Grimes, IA · 2024
Public art grant
- $63,990
Iowa Arts in Education · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $63,500
City of Clive · Clive, IA · 2024
Public art grant
- $62,425
City of Bondurant · Bondurant, IA · 2024
Public art grant
- $61,381
Japan America Society of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $60,750
Salisbury House Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $58,500
Iowa Asian Alliance Foundation · West Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $58,500
Stagewest Dba Iowa Stage Theatre Company · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $58,300
Heartland Youth Choir · Windsor Heights, IA · 2021
General funding
- $57,050
Civic Music Association of Des Moines · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $54,000
Downtown Events Group · Des Moines, IA · 2022
General funding
- $53,700
Iowa National Guard Memorial Association · Johnston, IA · 2021
General funding
- $52,650
Iowa Asian Alliance Foundation · West Des Moines, IA · 2024
Operating grant
- $51,000
Arts for the City · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant
- $50,375
Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa · Des Moines, IA · 2023
Operating grant, capital project grant
- $50,100
Mainframe Studios · Des Moines, IA · 2021
General funding
- $50,000
City of Waukee · Waukee, IA · 2023
Public art grant
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