Iowa · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC
DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Downtown Partners Inc does
Mission
The mission of downtown partners is to preserve and revitalize downtown burlington by enhancing its economy, infrastructure, and historical and cultural features.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Downtown partners is a certified main street iowa organization that helps improve the social and economic well-being of the burlington community by identifying it's unique assets and character and revitalizing its historic commercial district. The organization also helps businesses prepare and apply for revitalization activities and grants.
Downtown partners coordinates events and promotions. Major events in 2024 were: farmer's market, a very vintage market, sip, taste & stroll, witches night out, holiday parade and living windows and other events that promote businesses and vitality in downtown burlington.
Downtown partners promotes beautification in downtown burlington and helps with downtown vitality by supporting and providing grants for development activities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $392k to $241k (−38%).
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 25% · 2018 56% · 2019 40% · 2020 54% · 2021 34% · 2022 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Todd Ackerman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $432k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Burlington West Burlington Area Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN PARTNERS 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
DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
100% 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC.
“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
DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Government funding DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $965 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $965
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DOWNTOWN PARTNERS 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
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Bwb Area Chamber of Commerce · exempt
- Bwb Area Dev Foundation · exempt
- Grow Greater Burlington · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN PARTNERS 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC?
- DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($12,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,600 in grants to DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN PARTNERS INC?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN PARTNERS 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.
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 2 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