Iowa · Nonprofit
ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION
ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,800 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($130,150). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-29760
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Arthur a Collins Legacy Association does
Mission
Arthur A. Collins Legacy Association (AACLA) is committed to preserving and honoring the legacy and memory of Arthur A. Collins and the significant contributions he made in the world of communications, aerospace and defense technologies. AACLA is organized for the purpose of promoting education in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). AACLA works to inspire and teach future generations by the preservation and display of artifacts, conducting educational events, exploring grants and other funding opportunities which may ultimately lead to the creation and operation of a facility in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. The facility would be used by schools, other non-profit organizations, and the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Production of a documentary film about Collins' significant role, with DARPA, in the development of the internet to inspire future generations in areas of math, science and technology. It includes interviews with main creators of the internet and DSL about Collins' participation and use of its technology
$66,855 spent100% of program spendingStreamlining operation of web-based facility to disseminate educational material for schools, families, the general public and other non-profit organizations.
$0 spent0% of program spendingCollect artifacts and documentation related to Collins Radio Company, archive and organize with the purpose for future display to preserve history of Arthur A. Collins Legacy and to inspire future generations in areas of math, science and technology
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,855.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $76k to $115k (+51%).
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.
98% of ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $55k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION’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
ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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
73% of ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $151k 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
ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION
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.
Public support
23%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION: 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 ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION?
- ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,800 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($130,150). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $205,800 in grants to ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTHUR A COLLINS LEGACY ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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