Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,792,703 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($1,862,321). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporationlocalportfolio match
- John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incshared funderslocal
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.
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.
98% of DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $343k → $819k.
15 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
88% 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 DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 49% · 2019 53% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% — 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
52% of DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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. Your 67 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 42 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incshared funderslocalIA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
- Molony Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MidAmerican Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veridian Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Klauer Foundation Trust Xxxxx5009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R & R Realty Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Ruan Foundation Trustshared fundersIA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Fred Maytag Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- The Hws Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersIA · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Feeding Americashared fundersIL · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: 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 DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL?
- DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,792,703 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($1,862,321). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $6,792,703 in grants to DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $1,862,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67funders 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