Iowa · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Alliance for a Better Iowa does
Mission
To bring about civic betterments and social improvements by advocating for public policies that further social and racial justice, affordable health care, equitable taxation, quality education, a healthy climate, and other changes benefiting iowans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promote social welfare
$244,360 spentof which $65,680 as grants100% of program spendingSupport or oppose candidates for public office
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $244,360.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $160k to $5k (−97%).
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.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Jamie Burch Elliott
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA’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
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA?
- ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,000 to it, the largest being STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $285,000 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA?
- STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER IOWA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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