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Who funds human services in Iowa

Human services funding in Iowa is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Friends of Faith Ret Homes Inc leads, and the money reaches 882 groups.

$694M
granted
882
organizations
74%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of human services in Iowa

The funders giving the most to human services organizations in Iowa, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Friendship Village Charitable Trust$44M2Youth and Shelter Services Foundation$31M3United Way of Central Iowa$29M4Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn$28M5Camp Courageous of Iowa$16M6Friends of Faith Ret Homes Inc$16M7Camp Courageous of Iowa Foundation$16M8United Way of East Central Iowa$15M9The Mental Health Association of New York City Inc$14M10Heritage Area Agency on Aging$14M

Human services organizations in Iowa that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

872 other human services organizations$469M
Friends of Faith Ret Homes Inc$45MLutheran Services in Iowa Inc$25M

How to find human services funders in Iowa

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Iowa

    The funders giving the most to human services in Iowa are The Friendship Village Charitable Trust, Youth and Shelter Services Foundation, United Way of Central Iowa. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    26% of human services money in Iowa comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Iowa.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in Iowa?
Start with the funders already giving to human services in Iowa, currently The Friendship Village Charitable Trust, Youth and Shelter Services Foundation, United Way of Central Iowa. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Iowa from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in Iowa?
The Friendship Village Charitable Trust gives the most to human services organizations in Iowa, $44M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in Iowa?
$694M reached 882 human services organizations in Iowa, from 1,318 funders. 74% came from funders also based in Iowa.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.