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CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($330,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$776k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$418k
Net assets
$346k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Cedar Valley Irish Cultural Association does

Mission

The Cedar Valley Irish Cultural Association is an organization intended to foster and develop irish fellowship and outreach into the community with the irish cultural events and programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Irish cultural events and programs

    $663,126 spentof which $13,725 as grants$259,121 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $663,126.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($230k)2021 Revenue 464 ($561k) Expenses 473 ($547k) Net assets 162 ($374k)2022 Revenue 544 ($658k) Expenses 585 ($677k) Net assets 159 ($366k)2023 Revenue 576 ($696k) Expenses 614 ($711k) Net assets 150 ($345k)2024 Revenue 642 ($776k) Expenses 669 ($774k) Net assets 150 ($346k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (642)Expenses (669)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $230k to $374k (+62%).

$230k
$374k
$366k
$345k
$349k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’20
$13k
’21
−$20k
’22
−$15k
’23
$1k
’24
4.9
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed33344
Joined·+0+0+3+0
No longer listed·0020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $37k → $70k.

From the IRS filings of CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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 VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% — 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 VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)59% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: 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 CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $417,500 to it, the largest being VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($330,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $417,500 in grants to CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CEDAR VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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