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Iowa · Nonprofit
GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY (Iowa) is funded by 12 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,015,288 in grants to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 883 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 883 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
$28k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $443k and 8 in 2023.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. Association, not causation.
GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2023 28% · 2024 23% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
GREAT PLAINS ACTION SOCIETY draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
45% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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. view filing