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BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,256 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$487k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$80k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
1/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,269 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)134% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,269 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1k) Expenses 100 ($414k) Net assets 100 ($433k)2018 Revenue 32186 ($405k) Expenses 113 ($466k) Net assets 86 ($372k)2019 Revenue 97944 ($1.2M) Expenses 52 ($217k) Net assets 320 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 4955 ($62k) Expenses 86 ($354k) Net assets 252 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 22975 ($289k) Expenses 92 ($380k) Net assets 231 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 9929 ($125k) Expenses 148 ($613k) Net assets 119 ($515k)2023 Revenue 124339 ($1.6M) Expenses 147 ($609k) Net assets 339 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 38711 ($487k) Expenses 124 ($511k) Net assets 333 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (38711)Expenses (124)Net assets (333)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,317 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$413k
17
$62k
18
$1.0M
19
$292k
20
$91k
21
$488k
22
$954k
23
$25k
24
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $50k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)74% 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 BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’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

BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.

62%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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

74% of BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION'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. Of the $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states.

IL
WI
OH
CA

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

17
19
20
21
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

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.

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 BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Bwb Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
  • Downtown Partners Inc · exempt
  • Grow Greater Burlington · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,256 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $80,256 in grants to BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BURLINGTON WEST BURLINGTON AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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