Public Award History

2025 Community Betterment Awards

Organization Name Date Awarded Amount Awarded
Des Moines Water Works 6/3/2025 $5,000.00
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa 6/3/2025 $1,000.00
Dress for Success Des Moines 6/3/2025 $3,000.00
Mentor Iowa 6/3/2025 $1,000.00
National Alliance on Mental Illness 6/3/2025 $8,500.00
Urbandale Schools and Alumni Foundation 6/3/2025 $4,000.00
Fairground Neighbors for Community Improvement 6/3/2025 $3,000.00
Animal Rescue League of Iowa, Inc. 6/3/2025 $2,000.00
Des Moines Public Library Foundation 6/3/2025 $3,000.00
Made-Kindly 6/3/2025 $3,000.00
ChildServe Foundation, Inc. 6/3/2025 $5,000.00
Caring Hands Outreach Center 6/3/2025 $10,000.00
City of Mitchellville Parks and Recreation Department 6/3/2025 $4,000.00
Blue Star Mothers of America Iowa #1 6/3/2025 $1,000.00
Des Moines Performing Arts 6/3/2025 $6,000.00
Brook Run Neighborhood Association 6/3/2025 $2,000.00
Urbandale Iowa 4th of July Committee, Inc 5/20/2025 $2,000.00
Johnston Partnership for a Healthy Community 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
Urbandale Community Action Network 5/20/2025 $4,000.00
Uptown Ankeny, Inc. (AKA Uptown Ankeny Association) 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
City of Bondurant (Bondurant Parks and Recreation Department) 5/20/2025 $2,500.00
The Puppy Jake Foundation (PJF) 5/20/2025 $2,500.00
Bondurant Community Foundation 5/20/2025 $3,500.00
Alzheimer's Association Iowa Chapter 5/20/2025 $6,000.00
Iowa Asian Alliance 5/20/2025 $2,000.00
First Friday Breakfast Club, Inc. 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
Altoona Area Chamber of Commerce 5/20/2025 $8,500.00
Caring Hands Outreach Center 5/20/2025 $8,000.00
Waveland Park Neighborhood Association Inc. 5/20/2025 $4,000.00
Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
Mary Bump Memorial Foudation 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
Kirkendall Public Library Foundation DBA Friends of the Ankeny Library 5/20/2025 $5,000.00
Iowa Bicycle Coalition 5/6/2025 $4,000.00
Neveln Center d/b/a Ankeny Service Center 5/6/2025 $9,880.00
Grimes Chamber and Economic Development 5/6/2025 $10,000.00
Raising Readers in the Heartland 5/6/2025 $1,500.00
Iowa Safe Schools 5/6/2025 $11,000.00
Black Women 4 Healthy Living 5/6/2025 $7,000.00
The Iowa Center for Economic Success 5/6/2025 $7,000.00
Build Lincoln Higher Booster Club 5/6/2025 $9,000.00
Watrous Heights Neighborhood Association 5/6/2025 $5,000.00
SCI CAN Foundation 5/6/2025 $5,000.00
Drake Neighborhood Association 5/6/2025 $3,000.00
Investing In My Future, Inc 5/6/2025 $6,000.00
Engage Ankeny 5/6/2025 $2,000.00
Southwestern Hills Neighborhood Association 5/6/2025 $5,000.00
Urbandale Lions Club 5/6/2025 $2,500.00
Goodrell School Foundation 5/6/2025 $10,000.00
NEXT LEVEL IMPACT 5/6/2025 $7,000.00
Myers Family Foundation Inc. 5/6/2025 $10,000.00
Iowa Center for Children's Justice 5/6/2025 $7,500.00
City of Mitchellville (Mitchellville Volunteer Fire Department) 5/6/2025 $9,786.00
Des Moines Arts Festival 5/6/2025 $18,000.00
City of Ankeny, Iowa 4/22/2025 $10,000.00
Can Do Cancer 4/22/2025 $7,500.00
East High School Alumni Foundation 4/22/2025 $10,000.00
Central Campus Marine Biology 4/22/2025 $3,000.00
Greater Altoona Girls Softball Association 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Big Creek Historical Society 4/22/2025 $3,000.00
Ankeny Little League Baseball 4/22/2025 $4,000.00
Polk City American Legion Post 232 4/22/2025 $9,925.00
Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc. 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Ankeny City Band 4/22/2025 $3,000.00
City of Altoona 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Ankeny Friends of the Arts DBA Ankeny Art Center 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa, Inc. 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Foster SQUAD 4/22/2025 $5,000.00
Grimes Volunteer Support Services 4/22/2025 $8,500.00
Ankeny Instrumental Music (AIM) Foundation 4/22/2025 $2,000.00
WDMCS Student Scholarship Fund 4/22/2025 $2,500.00
Ankeny Community Chorus 4/22/2025 $1,000.00
Central Iowa Wind Ensemble 4/22/2025 $1,000.00
Crisis Canines of the Midlands 4/22/2025 $4,300.00
Capital City Pride 4/8/2025 $8,000.00
Altoona Police Department 4/8/2025 $5,500.00
Ankeny Community School District - Ankeny High School PEOPEL PE 4/8/2025 $8,000.00
North Polk Community School Foundation 4/8/2025 $4,390.42
Altoona Fire Department 4/8/2025 $10,000.00
Polk City Community Library 4/8/2025 $3,000.00
On With Life Foundation 4/8/2025 $7,595.00
Queen Sisterz Nonprofit Organization 4/8/2025 $500.00
Mosaic in Central Iowa 4/8/2025 $3,000.00
City of Ankeny 4/8/2025 $9,853.00
Ankeny Business & Industry Collaborative 4/8/2025 $5,000.00
Rotary Club of Ankeny 4/8/2025 $5,000.00
City of Mitchellville 4/8/2025 $8,267.50
Ankeny Area Historical Society 4/8/2025 $5,000.00
City of Elkhart 4/8/2025 $10,000.00
FOCUSS Inc. 4/8/2025 $10,000.00
Ankeny Area Chamber of Commerce 4/8/2025 $5,500.00
Dragon Scholarship Fund 4/8/2025 $4,000.00
The Valley After Prom 3/25/2025 $5,000.00
East High Post Prom 3/11/2025 $5,000.00
Roosevelt High School PTA (Senior Party) 3/11/2025 $5,000.00
Ankeny After Prom 3/11/2025 $8,000.00
Urbandale Post Prom 3/11/2025 $4,000.00
East High Golf Classic 3/11/2025 $2,500.00
Lincoln High School Senior After Prom/Senior Celebration 3/11/2025 $6,000.00
Saydel Events Inc dba Saydel After Prom 3/11/2025 $4,000.00
Des Moines North High School Booster Club 3/11/2025 $5,000.00
Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight 3/11/2025 $10,000.00
Ankeny Area Chamber of Commerce 3/11/2025 $11,500.00
Southeast Polk Community School Post Prom Committee 3/11/2025 $5,000.00
Dallas Center Grimes Education Foundation 3/11/2025 $9,000.00
ALHS Alumni Foundation 3/11/2025 $12,000.00
Bondurant-Farrar After prom Committee 3/11/2025 $4,000.00
Johnston High After Prom Committee 3/11/2025 $4,000.00
Hoover Post Prom 3/11/2025 $5,000.00
North Polk Post Prom 3/11/2025 $3,000.00
Total: $604,996.92