Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Des Moines, Iowa

71
foundations with a Des Moines address
$149M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
22
say they accept unsolicited
$6,250
median grant

Grantlas lists 71 foundations that gave a Des Moines, Iowa address on their tax filing — 66 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $149 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 22 of them (31%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Des Moines 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 71 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 Des Moines, Iowa
The Principal Financial Group Foundation IncAccepts$13M$13M—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
MidAmerican Energy FoundationAccepts$6.2M$6.2M—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Seidler FoundationAccepts$10,000$4.1M$500–$300,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Berkshire Hathaway Energy FoundationAccepts$3.6M$3.6M—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Wellmark FoundationAccepts$31,951$3.2M$26–$758,599No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ochylski Family FoundationAccepts$90,000$1.7M$25,000–$300,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
EMC Insurance FoundationAccepts$5,000$1.5M$5–$167,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Gartner Family FoundationAccepts$10,000$624,000$500–$52,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Meredith Corporation FoundationAccepts$12,000$600,000$1,000–$400,000Up 98% over 3 yearsFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mid-Iowa Health FoundationAccepts$1,000$452,000$200–$100,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard O Jacobson FoundationAccepts$150,000$200,000$10,125–$260,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Violet G Young Charitable TrustAccepts$1,000$79,835$500–$23,643No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elmer O & Ida Preston Educational TrustAccepts$2,000$64,100$500–$6,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
ProspiceAccepts$3,500$62,500$250–$21,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Krause Family FoundationAccepts$2,250$56,000$1,000–$20,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ralph & Sylvia G Green CharitaAccepts$6,250$54,000$500–$7,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
3g FoundationAccepts$4,000$34,000$500–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
John H & Ann Ghrist Family FoundationAccepts$2,000$28,000$1,000–$5,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lorraine Blanc Devol Charitable TrustAccepts$1,550$21,742$271–$10,871No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Judge Monty W FranklinAccepts$1,400$12,494$291–$2,616No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Code Scholarship FundAccepts$5,000$5,000$5,000–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dr Ronald Bergman PrivateAccepts$50$50—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$12,889Over $5k only$84.7M$5,010–$7.3MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Easter Seal Society FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$725,000Over $5k only$725,000—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Calvin Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$279,113Over $5k only$211,000$211,000–$347,226No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: 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.
  • 3-yr trend compares the latest filing year with the year two before it, so it needs grants on file for both. Most foundations file one year of grants, so most rows show a dash.

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