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DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,236 to it, the largest being CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION ($231,334). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $481k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
0% of DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $43k → $62k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 58% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT is better cushioned than half of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
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.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT?
- DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,236 to it, the largest being CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION ($231,334). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $481,236 in grants to DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT?
- CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $231,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN DES MOINES SELF-SUPPORTED MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 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 2021–2025), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing