Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE
IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,383,030 to it, the largest being IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION ($2,430,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Iowa Agriculture Water Alliance does
Mission
To increase the pace and scale of farmer-led efforts to improve water quality in iowa.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation and environmental management: iawa is scaling up the adoption of conservation practices, conservation planning, and watershed planning to improve water quality and further efforts to implement the iowa nutrient reduction strategy which has a goal of reducing the nitrogen and phosphorous loading in iowa's waterways by 45%.
$2,208,973 spent$30,224 earned by the program79% of program spendingCommunications and outreach: iawa is focused on communications and outreach to farmers to encourage them to adopt conservation practices and communications to the general public regarding the challenges, opportunities and progess in improving water quality.
$575,759 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,784,732.
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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+42%).
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 5% · 2018 19% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 20% · 2023 62% · 2024 74% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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
Jeff Lucas
Executive director
Board chair
Kirk Leeds
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $531k → $679k.
From the IRS filings of IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE’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
IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 49% · 2019 45% · 2020 39% · 2021 43% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — 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
43% of IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
82% of IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$13.6M
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 IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE?
- IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,383,030 to it, the largest being IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION ($2,430,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $5,383,030 in grants to IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE?
- IOWA CORN GROWER'S ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA AGRICULTURE WATER ALLIANCE 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 8 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