Iowa · Nonprofit
EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC
EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,305,855 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Employability assists individuals to develop skills to determine what employment they would like to pursue and how to maintain employment in the community. In addition, the program assists program clients in developing and utilizing community safety and community transportation. 152 individuals were served during the year.
$582,882 spentof which $199,215 as grants$470,878 earned by the program4% of program spendingAchieving independent methods (aim) is a unique managed care plan for people with mental and developmental disabilites. The program offers a full range of direct services, including employment, housing, somatic care, recreation, case management, and socializaiton on a daily basis. 89 clients were served during the year.
$627,695 spent$847,465 earned by the program4% of program spendingScl helps persons with disabilities develop and stregthen daily living skills. Services are provided in both group and individual settings in the community and include working on household and financial skills, as well as communication and socialization skills. These skills enable persons with disabilities to live in their community. The organization also offers 24 hour support to individuals with diabilities to live independently in their own homes. A total of 115 individuals were supported with these services during the year.
$2,650,885 spent$3,001,922 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services
$10,775,381 spent$6,761,202 earned by the program74% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,636,843.
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 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $13M (+24%).
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 4% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Sherri Nielsen
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $554k → $144k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 45% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 93% · 2022 64% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
71% of EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.4M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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
- Easter Seals Iowa Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA 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 EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC?
- EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,305,855 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $8,305,855 in grants to EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF IOWA 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 32 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