Iowa · Nonprofit
FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES (Iowa) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,607,035 to it, the largest being ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST ($875,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Four Oaks Family and Children's Services does
Mission
Four oaks assures children become successful adults
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pmic/rt: four oaks; psychiatric medical institution for children (pmic) and (rt) are places that provide out of home treatment of an intense nature to help children whose behavior or emotional issues have escalated to a point that has often "overcome" the family and sometimes the community. During their time with us, they engage in a variety of treatment processes designed to help the child gain better control over their own behavior, better understand themselves, and work through issues that may have arisen in their families. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging from 5-17. We served over 800 kids and their families during the year.
$23,486,732 spent$24,015,940 earned by the program48% of program spendingCommunitiy based programs: four oaks offers an array of community based programs including behavioral health intervention services, family centered services, parents as teachers, family support, pediatric integrated health, supervised community treatment & functional family therapy. This array of community based child and family support services help to stabilize individual and family functioning, reduce the risk of child abuse and juvenile crime, and assists families to be self sufficient in meeting the needs of their children. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging in age from 0-17. We served over 3000 kids and their families during the year.
$12,071,684 spent$12,000,260 earned by the program25% of program spendingRrts: four oaks holds the hhs state contract for the recruitment, retention, training and support (rrts) of resource families. Requirements of this contract are to recruit and retain foster and adoptive parents; complete home studies and make recommendations to hhs on foster care and adoptive family applicants; provide post adoption support services to families with iowa adoption subsidy; and to make foster family match recommendations to hhs when children are referred to foster care. Four oaks services children in iowa ranging from 0-17. We served over 6,500 kids and their families during the year.
$9,947,656 spent$8,645,459 earned by the program20% of program spendingFour oaks offers other programs that include after school and summer activities, classrooms that help school districts with student behavioral issues, and emergency shelters. Four oaks services children in iowa ranging in age from 5-17. We served over 3,500 kids and their families during the year.
$3,284,410 spent$6,689,056 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,790,482.
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 2021 to 2022, from $43M to $51M (+19%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Lydia Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $332k → $429k.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
36% 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 FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 51% · 2019 33% · 2020 23% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 23% — 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
35% of FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
60% of FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.
Against its field
FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
- Affordable Housing Network Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES?
- FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES (Iowa) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,607,035 to it, the largest being ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST ($875,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,607,035 in grants to FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES?
- ROY J CARVER CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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