Iowa · Nonprofit
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $976,071 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($510,034). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocal
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 11% · 2022 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Eastern Iowa Arts Academy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $57k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Eastern Iowa Arts Academy’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
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 Eastern Iowa Arts Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 78% · 2019 74% · 2020 47% · 2021 60% · 2022 49% · 2023 90% — 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
75% of Eastern Iowa Arts Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
64% of Eastern Iowa Arts Academy'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 $347k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocalKS · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Association of Community Action Directorsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wapello County Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Community Action Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nelson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercy Medical Centershared funderslocalIA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- United Way of East Central Iowashared funderslocalIA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Housing Fund for Linn CountylocalIA · funds 27 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eastern Iowa Arts Academy: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Eastern Iowa Arts Academy?
- Eastern Iowa Arts Academy (Iowa) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $976,071 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($510,034). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Eastern Iowa Arts Academy have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $976,071 in grants to Eastern Iowa Arts Academy, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eastern Iowa Arts Academy?
- THE GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $510,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eastern Iowa Arts Academy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing