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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “pottawattamie”
Where the money went
Iowa West FoundationCouncil Bluffs, IA
42 matching grants · $7.7M · through 2024Largest: $1.4M to GREEN HILLS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY — pottawattamie county preschool
Charles E Lakin FoundationCouncil Bluffs, IA
8 matching grants · $611,245 · through 2024Largest: $144,615 to POTTAWATTAMIE ARTS CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT — contribution for general purposes
Largest: $90,000 to IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — to support the pottawattamie promise scholarship program for the 2020-2023 academic years.
Community Foundation for Western IowaCouncil Bluffs, IACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $746,920 · through 2024Largest: $193,150 to POTTAWATTAMIE ARTS CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT — arts & culture
Largest: $50,000 to POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — outdoor recreation and education
Largest: $75,000 to Pottawattamie Arts Culture & Entertainment — general operating support
Largest: $500,000 to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN IOWA — to serve and improve the quality of life in pottawattamie county, iowa.to serve and improve the quality of life in pottawattamie county, iowa.
Largest: $125,000 to Pottawattamie Conservation Foundation - Hitchock Nature Center — to further thecharitable purposeof the recipient
Southwest Iowa FoundationOmaha, NECharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $300,000 · through 2023Largest: $150,000 to Pottawattamie County Developm — community improvement
Largest: $50,000 to BLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL DBA POTTAWATTAMIE ARTS CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT — 2026 operating grant
Women'S Fund of Greater OmahaOmaha, NECharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $125,000 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — adolescent health
Telligen Community InitiativeWest Des Moines, IA
2 matching grants · $95,505 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to VISION TO LEARN — vision to learn will provide vision screenings, exams, and glasses to students, at no cost, in allamakee, black hawk, dubuque, jackson, jones, marion, muscatine, polk, pottawattami…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →