Coons Foundation
EIN 39-1898965 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 121 grants · $1.1m
Who it funds most
10 of its 14 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Coons Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 14 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202520749349100402
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202640859349100009 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202520749349100402 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202411249349100606 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202301249349102060 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202241239349102054 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202141309349102424 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202031369349101468 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201911339349103046 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Coons Foundation made 176 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $2.2m as filed.
- Grants
- 176
- Total, as filed
- $2.2m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| WESLEYLIFE | 6 | $511.0k |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | 7 | $327.0k |
| BLANK'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | 6 | $315.0k |
| JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | 4 | $155.0k |
| IOWA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION | 6 | $70.0k |
| MAYO CLINIC | 6 | $60.0k |
| BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | 1 | $55.0k |
| LUCAS COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | 2 | $55.0k |
| Living History Farms Foundation | 2 | $54.0k |
| CHARITON SCHOOLS | 3 | $51.0k |
| LeBonheur Children's Hospital | 2 | $32.0k |
| St George'S Independent School | 3 | $30.0k |
| DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS | 7 | $27.0k |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | 3 | $26.0k |
| Russell Fire Department | 1 | $25.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 30 | $297.3k |
| 2020 | 25 | $295.0k |
| 2021 | 26 | $341.0k |
| 2022 | 24 | $319.3k |
| 2023 | 19 | $253.0k |
| 2024 | 23 | $295.5k |
| 2025 | 29 | $387.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-391898965. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified