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Clear Lake Comm School Foundation

Clear Lake Comm School Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being JOHN K AND LUISE V HANSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$93k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Clear Lake Comm School Foundation does

Mission

Provide scholarships for students of the Clear Lake Community School District based on academic acheivement and need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Funds provided to the Clear Lake Community School District to purchase educational related items outside of the school districts budget.

    $71,959 spent
    61% of program spending
  2. Provided scholarships to graduates of Clear Lake, IA high school.

    $46,250 spent
    39% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,209.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($905k)2020 Revenue 104 ($54k) Expenses 111 ($63k) Net assets 99 ($896k)2021 Revenue 84 ($44k) Expenses 118 ($67k) Net assets 96 ($872k)2022 Revenue 914 ($476k) Expenses 82 ($47k) Net assets 144 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 19 ($10k) Expenses 154 ($88k) Net assets 135 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 204 ($106k) Expenses 202 ($115k) Net assets 134 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 179 ($93k) Expenses 217 ($124k) Net assets 131 ($1.2M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (179)Expenses (217)Net assets (131)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 2021 to 2022, from $872k to $1.3M (+49%).

$905k
$896k
$872k
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of Clear Lake Comm School Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$24k
’21
$429k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$9k
’24
−$31k
’25
21
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed3333444
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Clear Lake Comm School 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Clear Lake Comm School Foundation's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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

Clear Lake Comm School Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve20.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

55%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Clear Lake Comm School Foundation?
Clear Lake Comm School Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being JOHN K AND LUISE V HANSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Clear Lake Comm School Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Clear Lake Comm School Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of Clear Lake Comm School Foundation?
JOHN K AND LUISE V HANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Clear Lake Comm School 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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