Iowa · Nonprofit
CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,000 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fndshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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 9% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $31k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $251k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 93% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
100% of CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 386 organizations that share them.
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchKS · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fndshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rohde Family Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Slappey Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Fire Group Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Medical Centershared funderslocalIA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Cindy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Duroe Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of East Central Iowashared funderslocalIA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- United Way of Johnson & Washington Countshared fundersIA · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
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 CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: 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.
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 CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
- CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,000 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($140,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $256,000 in grants to CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR RAPIDS METRO ECONOMIC ALLIANCE 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 5funders 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