Organizations, programs, and projects Iowa West Foundation has funded over the past 10 years
Event Programming
$50,000
Economic Development Support
$225,000
ASPIRE: Work-based learning
$25,000
Operating funding
$125,000
Supportive housing for families at risk of homelessness
$360,000
ASPIRE: Rural Pottawattamie County Program
$200,500
Expanding after-school mentoring in Council Bluffs
$60,000
Operating support for Council Bluffs club
$95,000
Poverty alleviation courses for Southwest Iowans
$90,000
Capital Grant
Carson, IA
Personal protective gear and firefighting equipment
$10,000
Operating support for domestic violence & sexual assault services in southwest Iowa
$60,000
Immigrant legal services
$85,000
Council Bluffs programming
$1,000,000
Capital Grant
Corning, IA
Davis Avenue streetscape
$100,000
Community Events
$40,000
Capital Grant
Emerson, IA
Evans Park project
$18,267
Capital Grant
Essex, IA
Water System Upgrade
$200,000
Capital Grant
Lenox, IA
Toddler Pool renovations
$26,420
Tabor, IA
Splash pad at Tabor City Park
$46,000
Capital Grant
Corning, IA
Electrical re-wiring and LED upgrade
$22,500
Southwest Iowa Supportive Housing Incubator
$50,000
Workforce programming
$65,000
Capacity building
$100,000
ASPIRE: Plus One Pathways Program
$325,000
STARS Scholarship Program
$320,000
Expansion to Bloomer Elementary
$10,000
Merrymakers program for southwest Iowa senior citizens
$7,500
Iowa Victim Service Call Center for SW Iowa
$8,500
Early Head Start expansion
$330,000
Mobile pantry program
$17,500
Fighting childhood hunger in SW Iowa
$30,000
Developing and preserving affordable housing
$500,000
Pottawattamie County Trails Coordinator
$40,000
Metro Region Economic Development Strategy
$274,998
Pottawattamie County all day, 4-year-old, preschool
$1,350,000
Homeownership and home repair program
$300,000
Housing Acquisition
$1,000,000
Permanent Supportive Housing
$121,999
Capital Grant
Council Bluffs, IA
Roof replacement
$25,000
Capacity Building & Museums Relaunch
$177,749
Eviction Diversion Help Desk
$75,000
School of the Wild programming in SW Iowa
$23,747
Seed grants for rural Pottawattamie communities and Council Bluffs
$30,000
2025-26 National Series and Youth Series
$34,000
89.7 The River concert at River’s Edge Park
$50,000
ASPIRE: Career and College Transition Counselors
$126,000
Skills for Success program (formerly Earn While You Learn)
$35,000
Speak Up Be Safe abuse prevention programming
$15,000
First Responder Community Health Coach
$99,999
Field trips, CB Library passes, no cost memberships
$25,000
Summer camps and field trips for SWI students
$25,000
ASPIRE: College and Career Readiness Coordinator
$100,000
Building English language and computer literacy skills
$45,000
Equipment
$7,932
Emergency shelter services
$80,000
Capital Grant
Villisca, IA
Hacklebarney Wood Playground
$17,899
Peer-led mental health and substance abuse services in rural SWI
$30,000
Diaper distribution in Pottawattamie County
$10,000
Operating funding
$50,000
Equipment
$10,000
Operating funding
$125,000
School Partnerships and Memberships for southwest Iowa
$34,999
Southwest Iowa music & arts education programs
$16,000
Council Bluffs events attraction
$139,998
Music education programs in SW Iowa
$21,000
Operating support for building expenses
$200,000
Capital Grant
Honey Creek, IA
New exhibits at Hitchcock Nature Center
$150,000
Capital Grant
Home repairs for older adults in SW Iowa
$50,000
Theater-based youth workshops on safe and healthy relationships
$10,000
ASPIRE: iJAG Program (Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates)
$25,000
Nourishing People, Nourishing the Planet
$20,000
Capital Grant
Atlantic, IA
Housing Repair Program
$150,000
Leadership Camp 2025
$5,000
Collaborative furniture project
$30,000
Leadership Development Program for Women of Color in Southwest Iowa
$25,000
1st grade field trips
$10,477
Creative Heroes program
$25,530
Timothy Swaddling Clothes
$5,000
Nourish CB Choice Pantry
$500,000
Council Bluffs housing stabilization fund
$150,000
ASPIRE: Academic Success Advisor
$25,000
Capital Grant
Treynor, IA
Personal protective gear
$10,000
ASPIRE: iJAG Program (Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates)
$25,000
Railroad Days – Celebrating America’s 250th
$25,000
Community Impact Fund
$224,999
United Housing Network
$50,000
Samuel Bak Museum Field Trips
$16,431
Sporting event attraction & retention
$50,000
Capital Grant
Shenandoah, IA
Lighting Upgrades
$5,000
Equipment
$8,100
Capital Grant
Red Oak, IA
Handicap accessibility improvements
$13,500
The grants on the map indicate those awarded in the current calendar year.
Housing for all, education with purpose, and recreation for wellbeing emerged as priority areas following community listening sessions. Check out the Community Progress Report to find out how we’re collaborating to make a difference.
