Iowa · Nonprofit
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,236,479 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($5,386,523). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Children and Families of Iowa does
Mission
To assist youth, individuals, and families in becoming fully functioning members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child and family services: provides in-home counselors that provide counseling and skill-building for families to address issues that place children at risk of being abused or neglected.
$4,588,955 spent$5,722,419 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe parent partner approach celebrates individuals who have overcome obstacles through change, recovery, and accountability by using their skills to mentor families who are currently navigating through dhs as their children are in foster or kinship care.
$2,662,908 spent$3,074,146 earned by the program21% of program spendingDomestic violence services provides domestic violence services that use a unique approach to helping victims of domestic violence rebuild their lives.
$1,852,068 spent$422,800 earned by the program15% of program spendingFamily counseling; protective payee; youth work readiness; daycare services; substance abuse counseling; tracking & monitoring and other services.
$3,583,558 spent$2,232,460 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,687,489.
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.
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 $15M to $19M (+22%).
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 21% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% · 2024 25% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Janice Schroeder
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $816k → $1.1M.
14 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 73% · 2019 78% · 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% — 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
50% of CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
95% of CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $709k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Foundation for Children and Families of Iowa · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: 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 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA?
- CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,236,479 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($5,386,523). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $9,236,479 in grants to CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $5,386,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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