Iowa · Nonprofit
BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY
BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,858 to it, the largest being SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY ($46,358). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY has grown faster than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Modern Woodmen of Americashared funderslocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio 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.
98% of BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Genesis Health System). These are real filings, and they are not money BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY raised.
From the IRS filings of BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY’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
BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY 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
70% 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 BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 76% · 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
89% of BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Modern Woodmen of Americashared funderslocalIL · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gabriel & Claudia Navarro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Black Health and Equityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Goldstein Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thoracic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Rural Health Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY: 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 BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY?
- BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,858 to it, the largest being SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY ($46,358). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,858 in grants to BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY?
- SCOTT COUNTY REGIONAL AUTHORITY is the largest funder on record, with $46,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY 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 5funders 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