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INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,355 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$439k
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
1/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES has grown faster than half of the 367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 367 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($700k)2019 Revenue 108 ($7.0M) Expenses 114 ($7.1M) Net assets 85 ($597k)2020 Revenue 145 ($9.4M) Expenses 147 ($9.2M) Net assets 156 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 187 ($12M) Expenses 188 ($12M) Net assets 205 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 206 ($13M) Expenses 213 ($13M) Net assets 214 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 248 ($16M) Expenses 258 ($16M) Net assets 213 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 296 ($19M) Expenses 309 ($19M) Net assets 202 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 242 ($16M) Expenses 245 ($15M) Net assets 259 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (242)Expenses (245)Net assets (259)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 72% · 2019 61% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 50% · 2023 46% · 2024 38% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$235k
18
$102k
19
$198k
20
$339k
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$64k
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$4k
23
$81k
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$396k
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2.0
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $109k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)34% 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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES’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

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES.

34%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91%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

20% of INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 5 states in all.

AK
MN
WI
NY
IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.0M on record — $48.3M federal, $1.7M state.

Federal$48.3M
grants $48.3Mcontracts $845
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$48.3M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$845
State$1.7M
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Top programs
  • Emergency Solutions Grants$1.5M
  • Homeless Assistance HOP$96k
  • Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$22k
  • Other Grants$3k
  • Licenses$325

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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES: 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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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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES?
INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,355 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $439,355 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ALLIANCES 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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