Iowa · Nonprofit
FAMILY TIES OF IOWA
FAMILY TIES OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $84 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($84). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $84
- Net assets
- $6k
What Family Ties of Iowa does
Mission
Family Ties of Iowa provides home services for low income households, disabled individuals and veterans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Home care of elderly, veterans, or young adults who are disabled, and minor home upkeep (classified as chores by the iowa department of human services) who are unable to provide their own care in order to remain in their home environment and provide an affordable alternative to nursing home commitment while providing a safe environment and dignity to their livelihood.
$50,117 spentof which $311 as grants100% of program spendingThe facilitation and implementation of fund raising activities for Family Ties of Iowa and partnerships with american legion and make-a-wish foundation. For 2024, the board voted to add children's miracle network as a recipient of fund raising activities solely by family ties and to reach out and develop a partnership with military family support activities and the local army reserve units based in des moines, iowa. Army reservist, staff sergeant melissa barret, is in communications with family ties to develop this partnership for implementation in 2025.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPerform fundraising assistance for families for marriage mentoring, which has relied on volunteers is undergoing a revamping to facilitate with a lower level of volunteerism. Working with parents with ieps was scaled back in 2024, due to changes in state of iowa requirements of children with disabilities and public school requirements for ieps until clear guidance is available.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe board requested a review of fund raising activities in 2024 to determine if new programs would be more applicable with the mission of family ties and if current programs are the best fit and best expenditure of funds.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFamily Ties of Iowa is seeking to develop a greater connection to resources to assist elderly and handicapped such as promoting host homes for those individuals who become unqualified for home services but do not require the level of care or restrictions associated with being placed in an institution.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,117.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13k to $8k (−37%).
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 FAMILY TIES OF IOWA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13 → $39.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TIES OF IOWA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FAMILY TIES OF IOWA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84 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.
Against its field
FAMILY TIES OF IOWA has grown faster than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FAMILY TIES OF IOWA
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY TIES OF IOWA: 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 FAMILY TIES OF IOWA?
- FAMILY TIES OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $84 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($84). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY TIES OF IOWA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $84 in grants to FAMILY TIES OF IOWA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY TIES OF IOWA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $84 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY TIES OF IOWA 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 1 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