Iowa · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC
FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,996,275 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($647,174). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Friends of Lakeside Lab Inc does
Mission
Friends of Lakeside Lab supports Iowa Lakeside Laboratory and Regents Resource Center and serves as a community resource to champion the Labs work in water quality monitoring environmental education and research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Student Scholarships: Students attending Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Regents Resource Center ILLRRC during the summer of 2024 received scholarships to pay for room and board and or tuition for each week that the student attended classes at ILLRRC. In addition twenty-seven students who received scholarships participated in current research projects with faculty members.
$131,254 spentof which $131,254 as grants$47,700 earned by the program51% of program spendingPublic programming: Citizen Science: Water sample testing: Water samples were collected by local volunteers on 9 lakes in the Iowa Great Lakes Watershed throughout the summer months June - Sept. Water sample analysis was completed by the State Hygienic Laboratory in the Bovbjerg Chemistry Lab on the campus f the ILLRRC in Milford Iowa. The ILLRRC provided lab space for the State Hygienic Laboratory.
$33,087 spent$6,000 earned by the program13% of program spendingEnvironmental Education programming: Friends of Lakeside Lab Inc supports a Scientist in Residence and an Education Coordinator. The Scientist in Residence is responsible for directing research for summer research interns as well as working on their own research projects. The Education Coordinator is responsible for outreach environmental education programs for local school districts and learners of all ages. Pre-K - grade 12 programs are held throughout the school year Sept - May. Summer camps and evening programs are held during the summer months June - August.
$92,241 spentof which $66,265 as grants$47,754 earned by the program36% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,582.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $5.0M (+29%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $125k → $310k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
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 FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 42% · 2019 40% · 2020 71% · 2021 41% · 2022 39% · 2023 26% — 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
44% of FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
66% of FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB 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 $686k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB 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.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC?
- FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,996,275 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($647,174). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,996,275 in grants to FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB INC?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $647,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LAKESIDE LAB 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.
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 25 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