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HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC

HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,411 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($124,411). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$154k
Net assets
$2.3M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Inc does

Mission

Elementary & secondary education: the organization distributes from funds raised in the form of scholarships to low income families. Low income is defined as families with income less than four times the poverty level for their household. The state requires that 90% of the funds be distributed to these families, which is always complied with, but usually at least 99% of the donations have been distributed to students attending state accredited non-public schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Elementary & secondary education: the state requires that 90% of the funds raised for scholarships be distributed to low income families attending state accredited non-public schools which has always been done by this sto. The organization distributed 99% of the funds raised for scholarships for low income families attending state accredited non-public schools for the school year covered by this form 990.

    $1,578,052 spentof which $1,578,052 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,578,052.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($672k)2018 Revenue 130 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($1.3M) Net assets 161 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 96 ($1.2M) Net assets 196 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 153 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.4M) Net assets 288 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 170 ($2.3M) Expenses 169 ($2.1M) Net assets 314 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 212 ($2.8M) Expenses 176 ($2.2M) Net assets 409 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 149 ($2.0M) Expenses 209 ($2.6M) Net assets 319 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 129 ($1.7M) Expenses 128 ($1.6M) Net assets 337 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (128)Net assets (337)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $2.7M (+30%).

$672k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.7M
$2.1M
$2.3M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$92k
’17
$412k
’18
$233k
’19
$616k
’20
$174k
’21
$639k
’22
−$605k
’23
$124k
’24
17
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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Listed1614121516191915
Joined·+4+3+5+6+3+3+0
No longer listed·6525034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $70k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
2
2
2
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC’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

HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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

100% 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 HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC.

81%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 75% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.

“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

100% of HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve17.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
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 HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC?
HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,411 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($124,411). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $154,411 in grants to HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $124,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEART OF IOWA SCHOOL TUITION ORGANIZATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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