How many funders does BUILD A BETTER BELMOND have?

IRS filings report 7 grantmakers giving $2,355,822 in grants to BUILD A BETTER BELMOND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.

Who is the largest funder of BUILD A BETTER BELMOND?

Richard O Jacobson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.

How can an organization like BUILD A BETTER BELMOND 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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Iowa · Nonprofit

BUILD A BETTER BELMOND

BUILD A BETTER BELMOND (Iowa) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,355,822 in grants to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.7M

Revenue FY2022

Funders on record

$2.4M

Grants received

$751k

Net assets

5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%

Against its field

BUILD A BETTER BELMOND is funded by 7 grantmakers reporting $2.4M in grants to it.

Operating margin0% · bottom quartile

Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,862 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022

01The organization over time

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

$5k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $72k and 2 in 2019.

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total

Richard O Jacobson Foundation

$1.0M

Community Fdn of Greater Des MoinesDAF

$688k

Chester P Luick Memorial Trust

$622k

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

$18k

Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation

$15k

First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc

$8k

Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust

$5k

funders

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BUILD A BETTER BELMOND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

BUILD A BETTER BELMOND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42%

largest funder

98%

top three

effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 38% · 2022 70% · 2023 82% · 2024 46% · 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.

Where its funders are

BUILD A BETTER BELMOND is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Iowa funders.

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

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Iowa out of state home

03Its place in the field

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 7 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.

Government funding BUILD A BETTER BELMOND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.

Federal$84k

grants $84kcontracts $0

Top agencies

Department of Agriculture$84k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BUILD A BETTER BELMOND

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

Belmond Community Betterment Corp74%Mitchell County Economic Development Co73%Belmond Public Library Foundation72%Belmond Area Arts Council71%Belmond Historical Society71%Fort Madison Economic Development69%Belmond Growth Alliance69%City Improvement Association69%

Nationally

Benzie Aquatic Center75%Beaumont Chamber of Commerce75%Belmond Community Betterment Corp74%Redmond Economic Development Inc74%Mitchell County Economic Development Co73%Community Builders73%Belmond Public Library Foundation72%Friends of Brentwood Inc72%

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

board members

independent

–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Questions and answers

Who funds BUILD A BETTER BELMOND?: BUILD A BETTER BELMOND (Iowa) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,355,822 in grants to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BUILD A BETTER BELMOND have?: IRS filings report 7 grantmakers giving $2,355,822 in grants to BUILD A BETTER BELMOND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BUILD A BETTER BELMOND?: Richard O Jacobson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BUILD A BETTER BELMOND 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.

Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 7funders 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

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