Iowa · Nonprofit
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,526 to it, the largest being LAVERNA M SMEDLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($85,128). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Comprehensive Systems Inc does
Mission
The organization provides housing, training and job support for intellectually challenged individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Comprehensive systems, inc. Provides services & residential facilities to physically and intelectually disabled individuals. Approximately 195 indivduals were served in the current year. In addition to serving individuals living in the community, the organization provides care in rcf/id and icf/id care facilities for those individuals requiring intensive training and care.
$16,250,378 spent$18,849,181 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,250,378.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.7M to $6.0M (−10%).
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 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Jack Brown
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $25k.
2 of 8 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $241k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Comprehensive Systems Inc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC’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
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Comprehensive Systems Inc Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC: 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 COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC?
- COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,526 to it, the largest being LAVERNA M SMEDLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($85,128). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $195,526 in grants to COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC?
- LAVERNA M SMEDLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMS INC 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 8 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