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FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,625 to it, the largest being CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ($172,459). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$248k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$742k
Net assets
$43k
13/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Family & Children's Council of Black Hawk County does

Mission

To prevent child abuse and strengthen families.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education & training: to help prevent child abuse through education, training, and community involvement, impacting approximately 13,000 individuals.

    $60,012 spent
    31% of program spending

  2. Direct service to parents: programs to introduce parenting skills, community assistance, and personal support from trained staff and volunteers to approximately 117 new parents, teen parents, and parents under stress.

    $134,138 spent
    69% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,150.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($351k) Expenses 100 ($303k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2018 Revenue 76 ($267k) Expenses 94 ($285k) Net assets 79 ($70k)2019 Revenue 100 ($350k) Expenses 106 ($320k) Net assets 113 ($99k)2020 Revenue 120 ($421k) Expenses 115 ($349k) Net assets 195 ($171k)2021 Revenue 94 ($330k) Expenses 116 ($353k) Net assets 168 ($147k)2022 Revenue 87 ($307k) Expenses 106 ($320k) Net assets 153 ($134k)2023 Revenue 71 ($248k) Expenses 112 ($338k) Net assets 50 ($43k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (71)Expenses (112)Net assets (50)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 2019 to 2020, from $118k to $228k (+94%).

$116k
$81k
$118k
$228k
$159k
$144k
$52k
2017201820192020202120222023
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
−$18k
’18
$30k
’19
$72k
’20
−$24k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$91k
’23
1.2
months of
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

Amanda Goodman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed23211916121919
Joined·+3+2+8+3+9+0
No longer listed·5411720
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $83k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Cedar Valley United Wayunclassified
$172k
Otto Schoitz Foundationunclassified
$124k
GreenState Credit Unionunclassified
$25k
funders
3
5
6
9
7
6
7
5

1 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY’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

FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY.

23%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

WI
IA
CA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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

FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,493 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY

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In Iowa

Child Adolescent and Parent Support In84%Coalition for Family and Children's Services in Iowa Inc83%Family Resources Inc82%The Child Care Council of Buchanan County82%Families Inc82%Children and Family Urban Ministries D/B/A Children and Family Urban Movement82%Families Forward82%Southwest Iowa Families Inc82%

Nationally

Child & Family Resource Council Inc91%Family & Children Services Inc90%Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes Inc90%Family Resources89%Family and Children's Service Inc of Monmouth County88%Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc88%Family and Community Resources Inc88%For the Child Inc88%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 29%Fundraising 14%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY?
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $741,625 to it, the largest being CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ($172,459). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $741,625 in grants to FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY?
CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $172,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAMILY & CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 16 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