Iowa · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,989 to it, the largest being SOUTHEAST IOWA REGIONAL RIVERBOAT COMMISSION ($210,444). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$50k
Recipients
1
Contributions on record
$233k
Donors on record
5
Payments out are 0.22x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inclocal
- Iowa Council of Foundationsportfolio match
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 81% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100 → $11k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY’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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center InclocalIA · funds 26 organizations near you
- Iowa Council of Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Security Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fnnb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cedar Falls Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy J Sandbulte Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smith Family Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,989 to it, the largest being SOUTHEAST IOWA REGIONAL RIVERBOAT COMMISSION ($210,444). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $232,989 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY?
- SOUTHEAST IOWA REGIONAL RIVERBOAT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $210,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing