Iowa · Nonprofit
Central Iowa Blues Society
Central Iowa Blues Society (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,725 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($41,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Central Iowa Blues Society does
Mission
To preserve, cultvate and support Blues Music in Iowa
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Winter Blues Fest - 2 day Blues Festival supporting Local, Regional and National Acts
$64,162 spent71% of program spendingBlues Education - Promotes Blues Music in Public spaces Schools, Libraries, VA Hospitals, End of Life facilities,
$12,450 spent14% of program spendingIowa Blues Hall of Fame - Induction Ceremony, Maintenance of Display
$7,455 spent8% of program spendingIowa Blues Challenge - contest to send blues acts to International Blues Challenge
$5,904 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,971.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $93k (+36%).
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.
28% of Central Iowa Blues Society’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $24k → $18k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Central Iowa Blues Society’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
Central Iowa Blues Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
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 Central Iowa Blues Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Central Iowa Blues Society's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Central Iowa Blues Society has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Central Iowa Blues Society
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Central Iowa Blues Society: 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 Central Iowa Blues Society?
- Central Iowa Blues Society (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,725 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($41,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Central Iowa Blues Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $59,725 in grants to Central Iowa Blues Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Central Iowa Blues Society?
- BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Central Iowa Blues Society 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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