Iowa · Nonprofit
GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,837,652 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,102,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity Inc does
Mission
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Greater des moines habitat for humanity adheres to a strict non-proselytizing policy and will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Greater des moines habitat for humanity brings together the community to create and maintain low-income homeownership, revitalize neighborhoods, provde access to tools and discount materials, repurpose building materials, and deliver financial and homebuyer education. Greater des moines habitat for humanity served 40 families through home ownership, 531 families through financial counseling & education and 199 families through home preservation (repairs) for a total of 770 families served.
$25,463,716 spentof which $315,110 as grants$11,038,287 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,463,716.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $35M (+28%).
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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 5% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Lance Henning
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Paul Hlivko
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $400k → $4.2M.
15 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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: $3.9M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 74% · 2019 63% · 2020 34% · 2021 69% · 2022 82% · 2023 71% — 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
32% of GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC'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
68% of GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 $5.1M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$65k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Birdland Vista LLC · disregarded
- Fuller Holdings LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: 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 GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,837,652 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($9,102,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $15,837,652 in grants to GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $9,102,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 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