Iowa · Nonprofit
GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION
GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,774 to it, the largest being WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,909). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,327 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,327 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cedar Falls Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Black Hawk County Gaming Associationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Gallagher Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION’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
GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION.
“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
50% of GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
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.
- Cedar Falls Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Black Hawk County Gaming Associationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Gallagher Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Duroe Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cedar Valley United Wayshared funderslocalIA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- New Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohnward Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Melissa Lea Reicks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION
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.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION?
- GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,774 to it, the largest being WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,909). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,774 in grants to GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION?
- WATERLOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROW CEDAR VALLEY FOUNDATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing