Iowa · Nonprofit
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,600 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocalportfolio match
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
97% of AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $70k.
From the IRS filings of AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE’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
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 57% — 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
AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 93 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocalportfolio matchIA · funds 116 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 86 organizations that share your funders · funds 408 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vredenburg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lsb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kellyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of North Central Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Realty Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowashared funderslocalIA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- Chrysalis Foundationshared funderslocalIA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE?
- AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,600 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($300,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $608,600 in grants to AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE?
- NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMOS INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC LIFE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing