Iowa · Nonprofit
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,907,150 to it, the largest being IOWA WEST FOUNDATION ($590,775). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Habitat for Humanity of Council Bluffs Ia does
Mission
Habitat for humanity council bluffs mission is to build simple, decent homes and to create safe neighborhoods in partnership with god's people in need. Habitat forms partnerships with local churches, large & small businesses, civic groups and individuals who are dedicated to helping people in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeownership program - annually, we build or renovate two homes for families in need of safe and decent housing. Our program works to end the cycle of poverty by making home ownership available through affordable mortgages. Our building costs are kept low by utilizing sweat equity of our home buying partners and community volunteers.
$1,876,635 spent$852,601 earned by the program83% of program spendingRestore - to support our mission of home ownership, the restore accepts lightly used building materials and home goods and makes them available to the public at deep discounts. All proceeds of our store are utilized to help cover program costs.
$378,855 spent$302,013 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,255,490.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.1M to $5.9M (+15%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Blake Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Hemenway
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2k → $267k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA’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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 33% · 2023 52% — 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
57% of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA: 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,907,150 to it, the largest being IOWA WEST FOUNDATION ($590,775). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,907,150 in grants to HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA?
- IOWA WEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS IA 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 20 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