Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,823,200 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $9.7M
What Des Moines Area Religious Council does
Mission
Working together to meet basic human needs for the greater des moines community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The DMARC Emergency Food Pantries strive to meet the short-term needs of the food insecure in our area. We serve people seeking assistance through one of our 14 partner food pantry sites and 2 mobile pantries. In addition, we provide no-contact home delivery to those who cannot get to a pantry. Individuals and their families seeking assistance may receive a three-day supply of food once per month from each of our 14 pantries at no cost to them. Outside of the regular monthly three-day supply, we provide many food items that are available any time. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 the DMARC Food Pantry Network provided approximately 5,793,000 meals. Unduplicated individuals served totaled 70,727.
$5,224,140 spent95% of program spendingAt its roots, DMARC is a multi-faith collaboration working to meet basic needs in the Des Moines community. We have relationships with members of Baha'ism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Unitarian Universalism and Native American religion. As such, we take pride in offering a variety of opportunities for interfaith engagement.We offer an Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp, a weeklong camp where high school seniors and college freshmen explore various world faiths through hands-on experiences in their sacred spaces. Camp culminates in each camper producing a digital short video of their own faith journey to this point in their lives.
$68,513 spent1% of program spendingThe Des Moines Area Religious Council advocates for policies that will reduce food insecurity in the state of Iowa.DMARC is a member of the Iowa Hunger Coalition, a 501(c)4 non-profit organization. The Iowa Hunger Coalition is a group of passionate anti-hunger organizations and individuals who work for effective policies and help educate Iowans on the causes, effects, and solutions of food insecurity and hunger in Iowa.
$192,714 spent4% of program spendingFunds transferred to the Polk County Housing Trust to provide stable housing.
$6,026 spentof which $6,026 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,491,393.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $9.7M (+96%).
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
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
Matt Unger
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 45% 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
94% 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 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
DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
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
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.
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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 $6,823,200 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 $6,823,200 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 67 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