Iowa · Nonprofit
CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION
CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,254 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Otto Schoitz Foundationshared funderslocal
- Keokuk Area Community Foundationportfolio match
- Gorge Community Foundationportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
96% of CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $43 → $86.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION’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 RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $254 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Otto Schoitz Foundationshared funderslocalIA · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Keokuk Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gorge Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Changex United States Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M Cage Library Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooking Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Lakes Electric Members Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce and Vd Scott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montgomery Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rita B Keefe Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phil Hardin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $118k on record.
- Department of Education$118k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION: 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 CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION?
- CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,254 to it, the largest being BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,254 in grants to CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION?
- BLACK HAWK COUNTY GAMING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL RIVERS AREA EDUCATION AGENCY FOUNDATION 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 2funders 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