Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

37
foundations with a Cedar Rapids address
$54.2M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
11
say they accept unsolicited
$8,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 37 foundations that gave a Cedar Rapids, Iowa address on their tax filing — 33 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $54.2 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 11 of them (30%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Cedar Rapids foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 37 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Hall-Perrine FoundationAccepts$260,000$5.6M$2,000–$750,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Carleen and Eugene GrandonAccepts$35,000$1.5M$3,500–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
One Foundation IncorporatedAccepts$25,000$211,480$8,600–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Jared and Carol Hills FoundationAccepts$199,175$200,000$198,350–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Abbott B and Joan M Lipsky FundAccepts$1,000$58,477$100–$16,022FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
May G Gortner Charitable TrustAccepts$43,000$42,000$42,000–$44,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
ESP International Charitable FoundationAccepts$500$27,337$100–$3,616FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dr Kenneth N Andersen FamilyAccepts$4,000$16,000One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ernie P Schwartz FoundationAccepts$5,000$14,000$4,000–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jung Family Charitable FoundationAccepts$800$11,600$200–$4,950FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
J Ralph And Gladys MeierAccepts$725$5,001$161–$3,050FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Greater Cedar Rapids Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$17,656Over $5k only$10.2M$5,100–$371,323FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of East Central IowaFederationNot stated$61,310Over $5k only$3.6M$5,833–$303,217FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Wfg Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$12,577Over $5k only$138,675$6,426–$52,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Life Investors Fortunaires Club Charitable Foundation IncFederationNot stated$5,500Over $5k only$75,050$5,000–$6,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Hws Charitable Foundation IncInvitation only$62,300$10.9M$1,000–$1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Aegon Transamerica FoundationInvitation only$8.1M$8.1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wallace Research FoundationInvitation only$100,000$5.1M$20,000–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse FoundationInvitation only$25,935$2.8M$1,000–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dolezal Charitable TrustInvitation only$2M$2M$2M–$2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
United Fire Group FoundationInvitation only$7,500$989,500$2,500–$210,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hammer Family Charitable Foundation IncInvitation only$15,000$786,000$1,000–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Maurice Paul and Glennys BrimmerInvitation only$25,000$569,509$2,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dewolf Family FoundationInvitation only$5,000$450,000$4,000–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Herbert Hoover Foundation IncInvitation only$100,000$220,000$15,000–$105,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

12 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.