Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,852,643 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($787,604). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Des Moines Council of St Vincent de Paul Society does
Mission
Help those in need become self-sufficient through education, community connectedness, and unconditional support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Operate a sobering center for individuals struggling with alcohol use. Provide immediate care, support, and a pathway to recovery for those in need.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Operate a thrift store to sell donated items at low cost to the poor and needy
$3,242,399 spent$3,405,836 earned by the program73% of program spendingOperate a sobering center for individuals struggling with alcohol use. Provide immediate care, support, and a pathway to recovery for those in need.
$632,172 spent14% of program spendingOperate a client aid program to distribute financial assistance, food, and donated goods to the poor and needy. Also operate a literacty center to provide esl, ged, and financial literacy programs.
$589,298 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,463,869.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $4.0M to $6.3M (+58%).
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 29% · 2021 10% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY’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. 2 of the last 6 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 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $256k → $136k.
6 of 20 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 COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 20 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 COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 50% · 2019 87% · 2020 87% · 2021 56% · 2022 39% · 2023 28% — 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
30% of DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
53% of DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Svdp Substance Abuse Services LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: 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 COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY?
- DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,852,643 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($787,604). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,852,643 in grants to DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $787,604 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES COUNCIL OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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