Iowa · Nonprofit
C S A
C S A (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,343 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($510,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $561k
- Net assets
- $786k
What C S A does
Mission
To partner with individuals, families, providers, and the community to promote growth and resilience in individuals living in central iowa with disabilities such as mental illness, brain injury, intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Outpatient competency restoration program (ocr): provides mental health support, substance use treatment services, and didactic education to individuals across iowa who are found incompetent to stand trial. Our clinical team works with the individual's established support network and medical team. The goal is to not only restore an individual as competent to stand trial but to also keep vulnerable individuals competent and out of the criminal justice system by linking them to needed support services and coordination care. (started in march of 2024)
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Coordination services provide support to individuals and families with mental illness, traumatic brain injury, intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities. Service coordinators help navigate complex systems and connect individuals with needed housing, medical, social, vocational and educational services.
$1,159,663 spent$1,242,259 earned by the program24% of program spendingIntegrated services utilizes a team approach to provide wrap-around support services to youth and adults with mental illness or other disabilities. Teams assist individuals in accessing appropriate and safe housing, needed medical and behavioral health services and interrelated social, vocational and educational services. Momentum is an art access program that provides workshops, training and studio space for individuals with mental health issues or disabilities to engage, learn and create art as a way to promote hope and resilience.
$1,812,653 spent$1,899,466 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe integrated health home program provides whole health coordinated care for youth and adults with a serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance who are medicaid eligible. This program specializes in meeting the unique mental health, physical and social needs of young people and their families as they transition into adulthood.
$1,129,332 spent$1,173,758 earned by the program23% of program spendingIntegrated behavioral health clinic: provides outpatient health therapy, medication management and psychiatric assessments. Our clinical team consists of licensed therapists and psychiatric medication practitioners with diverse backgrounds and specialties serving youth age five and up, families and adults in central iowa.outpatient competency restoration program (ocr): provides mental health support, substance use treatment services, and didactic education to individuals across iowa who are found incompetent to stand trial. Our clinical team works with the individual's established support network and medical team. The goal is to not only restore an individual as competent to stand trial but to also keep vulnerable individuals competent and out of the criminal justice system by linking them to needed support services and coordination care. (started in march of 2024)resource and referral line: provides 24/7 access to mental health and disability resource and referral information to adults, children and families living in polk county, iowa.
$709,464 spent$886,018 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,811,112.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $3.3M (+54%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of C S A’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Christina Smith
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $432k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 C S A’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
C S A leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 C S A.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of C S A'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $526k 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
C S A receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $561k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like C S A
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for C S A: 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 C S A?
- C S A (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,343 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($510,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does C S A have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $561,343 in grants to C S A, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of C S A?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $510,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like C S A 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 5 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