About Tanager Place Endowment Foundation
Support access to behavioral health and educational opportunities for youth and families served by Tanager through scholarships, community outreach, and funding for prevention and treatment programs.
Focus Areas
youth mental healthscholarships/education supportprevention programsresidential and outpatient behavioral health servicescommunity outreach
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportorganizational sustainabilityoverhead/administrative expense coverage
About Tanager Place Endowment Foundation
A defining pattern for Tanager Place Endowment Foundation is direct support for Tanager Place itself: the two largest recent grants are $1,083,405 in 2024 and $998,462 in 2025, both described as funding to cover operational expenses. That pairing points to a funder that uses substantial unrestricted support to sustain the organization behind its youth and family services. The foundation’s giving also connects to Tanager’s own community-facing programs, including scholarships for students who have benefited from its services and planned giving support through the Volk Legacy Society. Across those efforts, the foundation links current operations with longer-term sustainability and postsecondary opportunity. Its stated work centers on behavioral health and educational opportunities for youth and families served by Tanager, with support for prevention and treatment programs, outreach, and education-related assistance. The result is a grantmaker whose philanthropy is closely tied to one institution, while still touching multiple ways of strengthening that institution’s mission and the people it serves.
What Tanager Place Endowment Foundation Funds
One clear theme is organizational support. In 2024, Tanager Place Endowment Foundation gave $1,083,405 to Tanager Place in Cedar Rapids for operational expenses, and it repeated that support with another $998,462 grant in 2025 for the same purpose. The foundation also backs education pathways through the Bridge to the Future Scholarship, a program for students who have benefited from Tanager’s services and are pursuing college, trade school, community college, or other career routes. Scholarship funds can cover tuition, books, tools, room and board, and certification or licensure fees. A third area is long-term sustainability: the Volk Legacy Society recognizes planned and deferred gifts to the Tanager Endowment, including lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more. These grants and programs show support for operations, education access, and endowment growth.
How Tanager Place Endowment Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered around $1.0 million: p25 is $1,019,698, median is $1,040,934, and p75 is $1,062,169. The recent record shows repeat support to the same recipient in consecutive years, both for operational expenses, which suggests ongoing rather than one-off funding. The foundation also uses a mix of unrestricted support and named internal programs, including scholarship and planned giving vehicles. Grants are local and entirely within Iowa, and the organization accepts unsolicited applications for at least some active programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.1M
Total Assets
$24.8M
Total Revenue
$2M
Total Expenses
$1.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1M and $1.1M, with a median of $1M.
25th Percentile
$1M
Median
$1M
75th Percentile
$1.1M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
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