Iowa · Nonprofit
BUILD A BETTER BELMOND
BUILD A BETTER BELMOND (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,641,823 to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($1,200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $751k
What Build a Better Belmond does
Mission
Create opportunities for belmond and it's citizens to be a better community
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Make improvements to belmond, belmond properties, and help belmond prosper and flourish
$1,696,698 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,696,698.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $72k → $182k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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. 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
BUILD A BETTER BELMOND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 BUILD A BETTER BELMOND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 38% · 2022 70% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of BUILD A BETTER BELMOND's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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. 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
99% of BUILD A BETTER BELMOND's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BUILD A BETTER BELMOND's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,860 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
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.
- 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
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILD A BETTER BELMOND: 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 BUILD A BETTER BELMOND?
- BUILD A BETTER BELMOND (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,641,823 to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($1,200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILD A BETTER BELMOND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,641,823 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 $1,200,000 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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These figures are 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 11 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