Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC
DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,875 to it, the largest being GreenState Credit Union ($110,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $217k
- Net assets
- $487k
What Des Moines Arts Festival Inc does
Mission
The mission of the des moines arts festival is to enrich the quality of life in central iowa by creating an opportunity for people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds to embrace the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The des moines arts festival sponsors the production of an annual three-day event featuring exhibits of fine arts and crafts, performing arts, childrens activities, and educational presentations. The current year's festival took place june 23-25, 2023, featured 190 artists, and attracted an estimated 200,000 guests.
$990,685 spent$223,534 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $990,685.
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 2018 to 2019, from $366k to $248k (−32%).
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 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $36k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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: $1.9M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL 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
DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 ARTS FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 57% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 73% · 2023 55% — 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
29% of DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
88% of DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL 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. $8k 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
DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL 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 DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC?
- DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,875 to it, the largest being GreenState Credit Union ($110,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $216,875 in grants to DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL INC?
- GreenState Credit Union is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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