Iowa · Nonprofit
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,250 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $183k
- Net assets
- $173k
What Essential Instruction Inc does
Mission
The mission of essential instruction is to promote community wellness and public safety while preventing crime and victimization. This mission will be accomplished through education, collaboration and ongoing instruction, all from a practical, lessons learned point of view grounded in biblical principles and application. Emphasis wil be on prevention as well as recovery and reintegration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conduct several programs at the eldora boys training school. Our programs aim to cultivate lasting change and rehabilitation by teaching what was lost through sin and crime and gained through grace and faith. Programs work with inmates to make the changes necessary inside that will allow them to be productive, healthy citizens outside.
Speaking engagements with youth, community organizations, and churches sharing real life experience about reconciliation and hope, teaching that no matter how much pain you feel, or how lost or alone you may find yourself, there is hope to be had in grace, forgiveness, and faith. We teach that with these gifts, you can be restored and live a life that does not share in the cycles of sin, crime, and abandonment. All this is shared through compelling real life stories that capture the attention of youth.
Weekly sunday church services at the lincoln center.
The mission of essential instruction is to promote community wellness and public safety while preventing crime and victimization. This mission will be accomplished through education, collaboration and ongoing instruction, all from a practical, lessons learned point of view grounded in biblical principles and application. Emphasis wil be on prevention as well as recovery and reintegration.
$132,026 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $132,026.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $29k to $194k (+576%).
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.
100% of ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $21k → $20k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION 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
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 59% · 2019 51% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 45% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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
65% of ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION 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 $65k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION 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.
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION 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 ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC?
- ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,250 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($65,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $183,250 in grants to ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION INC?
- GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSENTIAL INSTRUCTION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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