Iowa · Nonprofit
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,425,788 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($712,940). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity does
Mission
Seeking to put gods love into action, Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity, serving linn and benton counties, brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity adheres to a strict non-proselytizing policy and will not base an offer of assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At cvhfh we build new homes or purchase distressed and blighted properties for homeownership. Volunteers are utilized for construction and supervised by habitat staff adhering to strict safety protocols. Future homeowners contribute sweat equity by volunteering on construction sites or in other habitat activities. Homes are priced at appraised value and sold to low to moderate income families using an affordable mortgage. Affordable means that no more than 30% of the household income would be spent for housing (mortgage payment, property tax, and property insurance). The monthly mortgage payments are deposited into the fund for humanity and used to further our mission.
$2,748,615 spent$620,081 earned by the program93% of program spendingRestore program: cvhfhs restore supports the mission by selling a variety of donated goods and some new products at reduced prices to community members. By selling gently used items, cvhfh reduces landfill costs, provides volunteer/employment opportunities, and assists families by providing affordable home goods and building materials. Funds generated by the restore help fund the mission of cvhfh of providing affordable housing for low to moderate income families.
Homebuyer education: cvhfh requires all families in the homeownership program to complete a series of educational classes focused on becoming a homeowner. Topics include budgeting, maintenance, and insurance and wills. Classes are taught by local experts in their field. Additionally, cvhfh provides each family with a support partner to help guide them through the homeownership process and answer questions.
$213,593 spentof which $35,800 as grants7% of program spendingCvhfhs home repair program seeks to provide home repairs for low to moderate homeowners, who are struggling to maintain their homes because of age, disability, financial limitations, or family circumstance. Repair projects consist of interior/exterior repairs intended to alleviate health and/or safety issues. Cvhfh partners with volunteers, sub-contractors, and other non-profit organizations to complete repairs that allow families to live safely in their homes with dignity and pride.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,962,208.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.1M to $5.4M (−24%).
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: 2017 20% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 4% · 2023 9% · 2024 34% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $337k → $188k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $265k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’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
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 30% · 2019 24% · 2020 29% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 24% — 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
63% of CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $494k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,425,788 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($712,940). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,425,788 in grants to CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $712,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing