Iowa · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK (Iowa) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,254,935 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($13,998,072). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Community Crisis Services and Food Bank does
Mission
Community Crisis Services and Food Bank is a volunteer-driven organization that provides immediate and non-judgmental support for individuals facing emotional, food, or financial crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis intervention services: available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When you contact community through phone, chat or text, expect to talk confidentially to a skilled volunteer or staff who will listen with compassion, respond without judgment and treat you with respect. Our volunteers and staff complete a minimum of 62 hours of training to provide support and comfort for clients in times of crisis. They know how to work collaboratively with you to brainstorm potential options and generate an action plan if you think it could be helpful. We also maintain an extensive resource database, our staff/volunteers may be able to help you find more specialized local services and resources from national organizations. In fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 108,823 units of service were provided through phone hotline, chat and text, mobile crisis response, guidelink center triage, suicide intervention, information and referrals, tdd message relay for deaf, community education and outreach, and support groups.
$8,713,435 spentof which $111,991 as grants$8,123,656 earned by the program59% of program spendingFood bank services: residents of johnson county can receive grocery assistance once a week, with no limit on the number of weekly visits per year. Clients have the option to visit the food bank at pepperwood plaza at 1045 highway 6 east iowa city, iowa 52240, have food delivered or go to one of our mobile pantries throughout the county. Clients may choose the items which will work best for their family, with some limits based on family size. The food bank provides non-perishable items as well as produce, bakery, deli, dairy, and health and hygiene items as they are available through donations. In the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, 54,490 units of service were provided to low-income persons in the form of emergency and/or supplemental groceries.
$3,882,493 spentof which $3,182,153 as grants26% of program spendingYouth crisis stabilization (healing prairie farm) is both a youth shelter (ages 12-17) as well as a youth crisis stabilization residence (ages 10-17). The youth shelter provides long-term care for youth who are unhoused, have run away from home, were kicked out of the home or are couch surfing. The youth crisis stabilization provides short-term stabilization for youth experiencing a mental health crisis. In the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 293 nights of services were provided to youth experiencing homelessness and 1,176 nights of service provided to youth experiencing a mental health crisis.
$1,354,415 spent9% of program spendingEmergency assistance services: the emergency assistance program helps johnson county individuals and families maintain or obtain basic needs such as housing, utilities, identification and work-related items. In the fiscal year ending june 30,2025, 11,495 units of services were provided to low-income persons in the form of rent and utility assistance, clothing, local bus tickets, career related expenses, information/referrals and more.
$737,015 spentof which $310,039 as grants5% of program spendingThe 1105 project is a property owned by Community Crisis Services and Food Bank. It is utilized by community staff for meetings and office space. There are occupancy lease agreements with two local nonprofits, one for office space and the other to run their program in the dining room and commercial kitchen. The commercial kitchen is available for rent to local food entrepreneurs when not being used by the nonprofit.
$80,378 spent$45,300 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,767,736.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $8.6M (+32%).
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 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK’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 8 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
Nelson Sarah
CEO
Board chair
Walden Patti
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $270k → $5.6M.
14 of 43 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 COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 60% · 2021 46% · 2022 42% · 2023 88% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$750k
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 COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: 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 COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK?
- COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK (Iowa) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,254,935 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($13,998,072). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $17,254,935 in grants to COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,998,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK 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 43 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