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CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,735 to it, the largest being THE ANDRES MEMORIAL TRUST ($66,521). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$67k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$822k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What City Improvement Association does

Mission

Park improvement and maintenance

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Park improvement and maintenance

    $63,195 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,195.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($40k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($771k)2018 Revenue 115 ($46k) Expenses 74 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($768k)2019 Revenue 145 ($58k) Expenses 64 ($42k) Net assets 102 ($784k)2020 Revenue 118 ($47k) Expenses 73 ($48k) Net assets 101 ($782k)2021 Revenue 130 ($52k) Expenses 60 ($39k) Net assets 103 ($794k)2022 Revenue 104 ($41k) Expenses 114 ($75k) Net assets 99 ($761k)2023 Revenue 247 ($98k) Expenses 70 ($46k) Net assets 106 ($813k)2024 Revenue 168 ($66k) Expenses 70 ($46k) Net assets 108 ($834k)2025 Revenue 169 ($67k) Expenses 120 ($79k) Net assets 107 ($822k)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (120)Net assets (107)

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 $761k to $813k (+7%).

$771k
$768k
$784k
$782k
$794k
$761k
$813k
$834k
$822k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$26k
’17
−$2k
’18
$15k
’19
−$1k
’20
$12k
’21
−$33k
’22
$52k
’23
$21k
’24
−$12k
’25
114
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.

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Listed777666666
Joined·+1+2+1+2+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·12221020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $26k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1
3
2
3

From the IRS filings of CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’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

CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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

CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.

IA
MO

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

’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

Organizations like CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,735 to it, the largest being THE ANDRES MEMORIAL TRUST ($66,521). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $127,735 in grants to CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
THE ANDRES MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $66,521 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITY IMPROVEMENT 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.

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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 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