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GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,269 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($41,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$70k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$22k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Greater Cedar Rapids Mural Trail Society does

Mission

Utilizing local architecture as the backdrop for public art.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The crunch berry run family-friendly, colorful fun run or walk.

    $17,055 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,055.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2024 Revenue 89 ($70k) Expenses 106 ($71k) Net assets 96 ($22k)
20232024
Revenue (89)Expenses (106)Net assets (96)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $23k to $22k (−4%).

$23k
$22k
20232024
Total assets

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’23
−$1k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $24 → $16k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
4
3
1
2

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY’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

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 55% · 2023 91% — 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.

Where its funders are

95% of GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state.

WI

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

’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54k to it.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY?
GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,269 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($41,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,269 in grants to GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS MURAL TRAIL SOCIETY 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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