Iowa · Nonprofit
HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC
HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,044,617 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($3,360,991). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Home Opportunities Made Easy Inc does
Mission
To empower our neighbors by helping them overcome the barriers to obtaining and maintaining safe, stable, affordable housing. We do this through education, housing counseling, neighborhood revitalization, and affordable housing development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Property program - acts as developer and general contractor in the construction or rehabilitation of homes. The homes are used to provide housing opportunities to low-income families through lease/purchase, contract purchase, turnkey, and rentals. In partnership with governmental or nonprofit entities, home, inc. May act as a general contractor in the building or improving housing for low-income people in polk, dallas, and warren counties.the organization has 3 single family homes and 4 duplexes available for rent. Home, inc. Is responsible for maintaining all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and other facilities, and also for lawn care and snow removal. Each unit has a yearly rental agreement, which defaults to month-to-month upon expiration.
$1,429,109 spentof which $9,770 as grants$1,020,140 earned by the program71% of program spendingCommunity housing services program (chsp) - provides counseling, education and citizens' advocacy services to assist tenants, landlords, and homeless people. Home, inc. Provides homeownership counseling and supportive services to families participating in its lease/purchase program and homeownership counseling and technical assistance to low-income people.
$366,928 spent$16,055 earned by the program18% of program spendingStable families - provides financial assistance and counseling to families who are at risk of losing their housing. Home, inc. Assists with budgeting, connecting them with job training, schooling, outside counseling, and getting the children involved in programs. A main goal of stable families is preventing displacement to keep children in their same school.
$215,961 spentof which $114,054 as grants$25 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,011,998.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $4.5M (+25%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 19% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 58% · 2022 51% · 2023 28% · 2024 33% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC’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
Carrie Woerdeman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $372k → $383k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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
HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 82% · 2021 98% · 2022 72% · 2023 92% — 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 HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
96% of HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Government funding HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $235k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$235k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wherry II Building LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC?
- HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC (Iowa) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,044,617 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($3,360,991). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,044,617 in grants to HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $3,360,991 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME OPPORTUNITIES MADE EASY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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