Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 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 FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $354k
What Iowa Academy of Science does
Mission
Science education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ias-Iowa Academy of Science: the Iowa Academy of Science furthers scientific research, science education, the public understanding of science and recognizes excellence in these endeavors. The academy publishes the journal of the Iowa Academy of Science, the ias bulletin newsletter, sponsors the iowa junior academy of science, convenes two statewide conferences annually for teachers, scientists, and students, and facilitates communication and cooperation between members of the scientific, technology, engineering and mathematics communities in the public and private sectors. The academy provides professional development programs for pre-service and in-service science teachers and seeks to engage the general public through informal eduction opportunities. The organization currently has approximately 300 professional, academic institution, and corporation members.
$4,920 spent45% of program spendingIsts-iowa science teaching section: the iowa science teaching section (ists) advocates for excellence in science education by promoting professionalism and expanding learning opportunities for teachers. Ists holds the ists fall conference annually offering professional development and networking opportunities for 100 to 125 iowa science teachers. Ists encourages collaboration among teachers and publishes the ists newsletter and the ists journal. Ists is the equivalent of a state science teacher organization and benefits from being part of iowa's general science academy.
Ijas-iowa junior academy of science: the iowa junior academy of science promotes the study of and participation in science by elementary and secondary students and teachers. The junior academy provides mentoring opportunities for students doing science research, encourages student research, oral and written communication skills, and provides science, technology, engineering, and mathematics experiences for students. It also assists teachers who supervise student research projects. Members of the academy volunteer to evaluate student projects and presentations. It awards excellence in student achievement. The ias visiting scientist is available for member schools.
Isf: grant program in the area of science and science education.
$6,062 spent55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,982.
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 $354k to $300k (−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.
6% of IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gail Kunch
Ias exec dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE'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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
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
73%
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 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: 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 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE?
- IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 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 IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 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 1 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