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GRIN & GROW LTD

GRIN & GROW LTD (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575,746 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($618,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$642k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$400k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%
01What it does

What Grin & Grow Ltd does

Mission

To provide a safe, nurturing, quality early childhood program to a diverse population regardless of income.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education, care and various activities were provided to 14,537 units of service for infant, preschool and schoolage children.

    $578,280 spent$628,289 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $578,280.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($621k) Expenses 100 ($703k) Net assets -46 ($-44213)2018 Revenue 103 ($642k) Expenses 103 ($727k) Net assets -135 ($-130047)2019 Revenue 47 ($291k) Expenses 84 ($588k) Net assets -539 ($-518366)2020 Revenue 106 ($658k) Expenses 52 ($365k) Net assets 100 ($96k)2021 Revenue 137 ($854k) Expenses 72 ($507k) Net assets 603 ($580k)2022 Revenue 112 ($697k) Expenses 96 ($672k) Net assets 629 ($604k)2023 Revenue 112 ($696k) Expenses 105 ($736k) Net assets 587 ($564k)2024 Revenue 98 ($610k) Expenses 100 ($706k) Net assets 486 ($467k)2025 Revenue 102 ($631k) Expenses 96 ($677k) Net assets 438 ($421k)2026 Revenue 103 ($642k) Expenses 94 ($663k) Net assets 417 ($400k)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (94)Net assets (417)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2k to $408k (+20048%).

$109k
$67k
$2k
$408k
$671k
$652k
$619k
$492k
$446k
$426k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 30% · 2023 40% · 2024 26% · 2025 33% · 2026 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of GRIN & GROW LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$82k
’17
−$85k
’18
−$297k
’19
$293k
’20
$347k
’21
$25k
’22
−$40k
’23
−$97k
’24
−$46k
’25
−$20k
’26
5.9
months of
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.

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Listed1415151614141610109
Joined·+3+6+6+4+3+3+1+2+2
No longer listed·265631723
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $81k → $207k.

From the IRS filings of GRIN & GROW LTD’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

GRIN & GROW LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 GRIN & GROW LTD.

39%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 83% · 2019 59% · 2020 37% · 2021 40% · 2022 50% · 2023 37% — 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

50% of GRIN & GROW LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

92% of GRIN & GROW LTD's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IL
IA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

GRIN & GROW LTD is better cushioned than half of the 625 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like GRIN & GROW LTD

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRIN & GROW LTD?
GRIN & GROW LTD (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575,746 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($618,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRIN & GROW LTD have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,575,746 in grants to GRIN & GROW LTD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRIN & GROW LTD?
OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $618,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRIN & GROW LTD 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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