Community improvement

South Central Iowa Community Foundation

Our mission is to contribute to a better life for people of South Central Iowa by helping donors to carry out their charitable intent and by providing responsible stewardship of gifts for community purposes.

Iowa Arts Council

Iowa Arts & Culture Resilience Grants provide flexible support to Iowa’s arts, humanities and cultural nonprofit organizations to undertake activities that expand organizational capacity, increase financial stability, promote equity and inclusion, a

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Lee Endowment Foundation

Support for community development, higher education, health and social services, and for scholarships to individuals for postsecondary education.

Spahn & Rose Lumber Company Charitable Foundation

The foundation supports hospitals and organizations involved with arts and culture, education, health, youth development, and human services.

Omaha Community Foundation

The purpose of the Omaha Community Foundation is to coordinate informed, effective and innovative giving that inspires positive change within our communities.

Oakley-Lindsay Foundation of Quincy Newspapers & Quincy Broadcasting Company, Inc.

The foundation supports community foundations and organizations involved with arts and culture, education, animal welfare, recreation, and community development.

Northwest Area Foundation

Our mission is to support efforts by the people, organizations, and communities of our eight-state region to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity.

Keep Iowa Beautiful

To empower Iowans to make Iowa the cleanest and most attractive state in the nation. 

Pella Community Foundation

​Our basic purpose is to ​preserve the heritage and enhance the quality of life for the people of Pella by helping to transfer funds from the hands of people who wish to help others to nonprofit organizations that can do it most effi

Tigger and Irving Jensen Foundation

To support local religious, charitable, and civic organizations.

Hanson (John K. & Luise V.) Foundation

The Foundation has a special interest in projects that strengthen families through arts and culture, family recreation, and youth development/education. The Foundation also has philanthropic ties to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.