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Iowa · Nonprofit
BALANCE AUTISM (Iowa) is funded by 17 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $456,071 in grants to it, the largest being BALANCE AUTISM FOUNDATION ($266,980). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BALANCE AUTISM has grown faster than half of the 410 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 410 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 2%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of BALANCE AUTISM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $10k → $16k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BALANCE AUTISM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
BALANCE AUTISM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 45% · 2019 61% · 2020 56% · 2021 67% · 2022 54% · 2023 96% · 2024 99% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
15% of BALANCE AUTISM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
BALANCE AUTISM is locally rooted: 93% of its grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
87% of spending goes to programs.
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 2 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 17funders 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. view filing