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BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC

BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $650,189 to it, the largest being The Wellmark Foundation ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.9M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$650k
Net assets
$8.1M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc does

Mission

The mission of bravo greater des moines is to leverage community resources to maximize the impact of arts, culture and heritage to advance regional priorities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Bravo greater des moines utilizes competitive grant programs to provide financial support for the administration, operations, capital improvements, and programs of local 501(c)(3) organizations and/or government agencies. Bravo's grantmaking priority is to enhance the impact of arts, culture and heritage to advance regional priorities.

    $6,574,050 spentof which $6,230,821 as grants
    95% of program spending
  2. Bravo greater des moines utilizes a community impact program to provide leadership beyond grantmaking to advance regional cultural priorities.

    $361,890 spent
    5% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,935,940.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($5.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 104 ($4.8M) Expenses 87 ($4.8M) Net assets 80 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 113 ($5.2M) Expenses 86 ($4.8M) Net assets 92 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 94 ($4.3M) Expenses 85 ($4.7M) Net assets 79 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 76 ($3.5M) Expenses 60 ($3.3M) Net assets 85 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 128 ($5.9M) Expenses 93 ($5.2M) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 159 ($7.3M) Expenses 93 ($5.2M) Net assets 176 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 165 ($7.6M) Expenses 116 ($6.4M) Net assets 212 ($6.6M)2025 Revenue 193 ($8.9M) Expenses 134 ($7.4M) Net assets 262 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (134)Net assets (262)Peer revenue range

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 $3.5M to $7.9M (+123%).

$4.9M
$4.8M
$5.3M
$4.2M
$3.1M
$3.5M
$7.9M
$8.0M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 89% · 2022 91% · 2023 90% · 2024 87% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$960k
’17
−$90k
’18
$371k
’19
−$404k
’20
$175k
’21
$718k
’22
$2.1M
’23
$1.1M
’24
$1.4M
’25
11
months of
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.

Board chair

Matthew Mckinney

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed353536363638363636
Joined·+14+3+8+10+12+8+8+6
No longer listed·142810101086
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $27k → $20k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $1.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC’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

BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

15%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 88% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

13% of BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

93% of BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC?
BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $650,189 to it, the largest being The Wellmark Foundation ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $650,189 in grants to BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC?
The Wellmark Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC 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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing