Iowa · Nonprofit
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,641 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($7,519). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $753k
What Brain Injury Association of Iowa does
Mission
The mission of Brain Injury Association of Iowa is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, advocacy, education, research, and support. Starting as a volunteer organization in 1980, BIAIA has worked as an advocacy hub for statewide legislative, policy and systems change. Staffed by professional staff, BIAIA develops, deploys and evaluates an array of services designed to support Iowans with brain injury. BIAIA is active in influencing policy that impacts not only Iowans with brain injury but also other Iowans with disabilities. We provide training and education, to help raise awareness about brain injuries and help prevent them. We are here to serve the estimated 600,000 Iowa adults that report a lifetime history of brain injury. BIAIA has rejoined the Brain Injury Association of America to unite with other states under one umbrella to increase advocacy efforts and to unify the voices of people with lived experience, their families and the professionals serving them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Brain Injury Association of Iowa (BIAIA) works to increase availability and accessibility of services and supports for people with brain injury, their family member and professionals engaging with them. The organization has maintained a statewide program of advocacy, education and prevention. BIAIA has had more than 15,276 contacts with Iowans affected by brain injury as well as professionals requesting information and providing resources and supports. Staff within the Brain Injury Resource Facilitation program supported 317 new case opened in 2025. The organization distributed monthly newsletters via email, distributed weekly event emails that included webinars, support group information, workshops and other engagement opportunities. BIAIA increased our social media presence, delivered 749 resources statewide by mail to brain injury survivors, families, caregivers and professionals. A professional network of providers and organizations to receive information for Iowans. Network providers had access to engagement meetings, in-services, case consultations and technical assistance.
$761,993 spent82% of program spendingIn 2025 the organization provided more than 40 community-based trainings that included family caregiver workshops, survivor/ family and caregiver webinars and professional webinars. Most of these sessions were virtual and recorded and those with presenter permission are also posted on our YouTube platform for additional views and sharing. BIAIA provides training and education opportunities in-person and virtually and hosted its annual best practices in brain injury conference.
$162,077 spent18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $924,070.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $743k to $930k (+25%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 87% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 86% · 2024 87% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
June Klein-Bacon
Executive Director
Board chair
Tom Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $8k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF 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
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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
100% of BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA?
- BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,641 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($7,519). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,641 in grants to BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF IOWA?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $7,519 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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