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EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC

EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,951 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$101k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$117k
Net assets
$64k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Earlham Chicks With Checks Inc does

Mission

Eariham chicks with checks, inc will make charitable contributions to organizations and projects that promote the betterment of the earlham community.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. We fund projects with our money quarterly for items the chicks (women) vote upon.

    $16,100 spent
    18% of program spending
  2. Levitt amp earlham concert series: a 10-week concert series we help fund every summer.

    $69,117 spent
    79% of program spending
  3. Big money projects: one quarter, we fund one local project with all of the quarterly dues.

    $1,980 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,197.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2021 Revenue 137 ($82k) Expenses 109 ($74k) Net assets 129 ($40k)2022 Revenue 177 ($106k) Expenses 129 ($87k) Net assets 192 ($59k)2023 Revenue 150 ($91k) Expenses 137 ($93k) Net assets 185 ($57k)2024 Revenue 168 ($101k) Expenses 139 ($94k) Net assets 208 ($64k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (168)Expenses (139)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $41k to $60k (+48%).

$35k
$41k
$60k
$58k
$65k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’20
$9k
’21
$19k
’22
−$2k
’23
$7k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $30k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS 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

EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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

EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.

IA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC?
EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,951 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $116,951 in grants to EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS INC?
MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EARLHAM CHICKS WITH CHECKS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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