Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation
DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,000 to it, the largest being IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND ($44,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $0
What DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation does
Mission
The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement (DSM BLM Foundation) was established to center Black voices, leadership, and ideas while advocating for radical, transformative change. The organization affirmed that every Black life matters and worked to uplift and fight for the dignity and well-being of Black individuals across the community. Its programs were designed and implemented to improve the lived experiences of Black residents in Des Moines and throughout Iowa. The organization also stood in solidarity with groups across the state working toward racial justice. DSM BLM Foundation dissolved on November 15, 2025, due to a lack of sustained financial support sufficient to support its operations and programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS - The Des Moines Black Liberation Movement Foundation (DSM BLM Foundation) wound down program service activities in the months leading up to its dissolution on November 15, 2025. In prior years, the DSM BLM Foundation's program services included Culture and Education, Mutual Aid, and Communications. Communications activities included disseminating information related to the Foundation's mission and activities through its website and social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, reaching 38,000 followers (duplicated count) as of its dissolution. Culture & Education activities included the Black Children's Memorial and Garden, which hosted silent and candlelight vigils to honor Black children whose lives ended early and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Mutual Aid focused on providing support to families experiencing grief and loss. The DSM BLM Foundation served as the fiscal sponsor for Des Moines People's Pride, which hosted one-day events on June 15, 2024, and June 14, 2025, at Lauridsen Amphitheater in Water Works Park in Des Moines, Iowa, with attendance exceeding 500. Additionally, in 2023, the Grinnell College Black…
$317 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $317.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $29k.
From the IRS filings of DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation’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 BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 43% · 2022 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
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 BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation?
- DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,000 to it, the largest being IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND ($44,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $64,000 in grants to DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation?
- IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $44,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT FOUNDATION dba DSM BLM Foundation 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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