Iowa · Nonprofit
ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC
ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,188 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $442k
What Access for Special Kids Resource Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of access for special kids resource center, inc. Is to provide innovative and collaborative information, training, resources and support to individuals with disabilities, their family members and the people who serve them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Access for special kids resource center, inc., ask resource center, exists to provide innovative and collaborative information, education, professional advocacy and research based family to family mentoring support to people with disabilities, their family members and the professionals who support them. Through various, core products and services, ask resource center helps to ensure the civil rights of people with disabilities and their families by offering assistance in navigating the complex education, community living and healthcare systems that become a part of life when life is touched by disability. Ask resource center serves the entire state of iowa utilizing a board of directors, a corporate advisory board, staff and a volunteer network -- almost of whom are people with lived experience in disability issues,civil rights and disability advocacy.in fiscal year 2024-2025, ask resource center provided over 52,000 instances of training and individualized assistance, offered more than 700,000 instances of information dissemination and referrals,trained 11 new volunteer mentors across iowa,facilitated 31 matches for trained mentors to families in need of assistance, and…
$1,236,232 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,236,232.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $402k to $478k (+19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 90% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $41 → $44.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
69% of ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC's revenue grew 107% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Education$2.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$948k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,188 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,188 in grants to ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS FOR SPECIAL KIDS RESOURCE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing