Iowa · Nonprofit
COMMON GOOD IOWA
COMMON GOOD IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,730,581 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($758,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $767k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $342k
What Common Good Iowa does
Mission
Common Good Iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Center on budget & policy priorities to use evidence and analysis to assure that our state adequately and fairly raises and spends revenue.
$128,948 spent29% of program spendingAnnie e. Casey foundation - kids count, to provide data and information at the county and state levels for policy makers, governmental agencies and individuals to use.
$60,000 spent13% of program spendingEconomic policy institute to promote new opportunities for good, well-paying jobs as iowa industry transitions to new energy sources.
$105,000 spent23% of program spendingOther program services include the following:alliance for early succesamerican heart associationchestnut fundeconomic policy institutedavid and lucile packard foundationpartnership for america's childrenunited way of johnson & washington counties
$156,876 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $450,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $473k to $281k (−41%).
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: 2020 34% · 2021 12% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Anne Discher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $565k → $477k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 COMMON GOOD IOWA’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
COMMON GOOD IOWA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 COMMON GOOD IOWA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 31% — 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
COMMON GOOD IOWA draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like COMMON GOOD 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON GOOD 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 COMMON GOOD IOWA?
- COMMON GOOD IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,730,581 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($758,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON GOOD IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,730,581 in grants to COMMON GOOD IOWA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON GOOD IOWA?
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is the largest funder on record, with $758,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON GOOD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing