Iowa · Nonprofit
Grow Centerville
Grow Centerville (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being TrueNorth Legacy Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Grow Centerville does
Mission
To facilitate broadly varied community inprovement activities in an effort to stop population attrition, improve apeal of the community, stimulate economic growth and promote job creation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Main street program - focused on saving and improving the historic centerville downtown district betterment or bust a volunteer who pull together labor and resources to complete needed community betterment tasks and seeks to increase recycling in the area
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $121k to $73k (−40%).
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.
98% of Grow Centerville’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $15k.
From the IRS filings of Grow Centerville’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 Centerville leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 Centerville.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of Grow Centerville's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Grow Centerville's revenue grew 52% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Grow Centerville
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Grow Centerville: 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 Grow Centerville?
- Grow Centerville (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being TrueNorth Legacy Foundation ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Grow Centerville have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to Grow Centerville, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Grow Centerville?
- TrueNorth Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Grow Centerville 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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