Iowa · Nonprofit
DISCOVERY HOUSE INC
DISCOVERY HOUSE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,027 to it, the largest being The Dorothy B Davis Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Discovery House Inc does
Mission
Providing rooms for homeless, assisting job finding, prevention and rehabilitation programs of some root causes of homelessness: alcohol and drug addiction.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing rooms for homeless, assisting job finding, prevention and rehabilitation programs of some root causes of homelessness: alcohol and drug addiction.
$120,116 spent64% of program spendingProviding rooms for homeless, assisting job finding, prevention and rehabilitation programs of some root causes of homelessness: alcohol and drug addiction.
$66,733 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,849.
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 2023 to 2024, from $298k to $229k (−23%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 66% · 2019 57% · 2020 76% · 2021 87% · 2022 10% · 2023 93% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DISCOVERY HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $100k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 DISCOVERY HOUSE 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
DISCOVERY HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 DISCOVERY HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2022 55% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
DISCOVERY HOUSE INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DISCOVERY HOUSE INC has grown faster than half of the 9,907 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,907 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DISCOVERY HOUSE 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DISCOVERY HOUSE 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 DISCOVERY HOUSE INC?
- DISCOVERY HOUSE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,027 to it, the largest being The Dorothy B Davis Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISCOVERY HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $170,027 in grants to DISCOVERY HOUSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISCOVERY HOUSE INC?
- The Dorothy B Davis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISCOVERY HOUSE 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 6 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