Iowa · Nonprofit
CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING
CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,651,466 to it, the largest being USAGING ($1,457,560). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $-2727515
What Connections Area Agency on Aging does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life for seniors (aged 60+) and caregivers in the service area through education, planning, and coordination of services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nutrition program: the agency's nutrition program serves hot meals and frozen meals to seniors in the service area, primarily those with low to moderate income as defined under title iii of the older americans act. The agency serves meals throughout congregate meal sites located throughout the 20-county service area and through home delivered meal programs it operates.
$2,668,360 spent$485,818 earned by the program49% of program spendingTransportation programs: the agency contracts with various transportation providers in the service area. These transportation providers take seniors to medical appointments, shopping and socialization. Many seniors would be quite isolated without this service.
$444,278 spent8% of program spendingInformation: the agency provides information regarding available services to seniors in the service area and to caregivers. This information can be disseminated via a telephone call, social media, print media, television, and public presentations. The agency conducted nearly 9,017 such information activities during the year.
$506,773 spent9% of program spendingOther program services that the organization uses.
$1,824,379 spent$-98,082 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,443,790.
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 2017 to 2018, from $927k to $279k (−70%).
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 56% · 2018 71% · 2019 77% · 2020 79% · 2021 79% · 2023 69% · 2024 78% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Kelly Butts-Elston
Executive director
Board chair
Tom Hoogestraat
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $61k → $461k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING’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
CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2020 78% · 2021 54% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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
75% of CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Against its field
CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $727k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$727k
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 CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING
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
91% 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
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Siouxland Aging Services Holding Co LLC · disregarded
- Riverside Gardens · exempt
- Diamond Heights Inc · exempt
- Fairmount Park Senior Housing Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING?
- CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,651,466 to it, the largest being USAGING ($1,457,560). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,651,466 in grants to CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING?
- USAGING is the largest funder on record, with $1,457,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTIONS AREA AGENCY ON AGING 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 9 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