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IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL

IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,018 to it, the largest being HNI Charitable Foundation ($3,018). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$580k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$797k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Iowa Business Council does

Mission

The mission of the Iowa Business Council is to engage the personal commitment of its executive members in active leadership roles on major initiatives that offer opportuinities to enhance iowa's overall economic vitality.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Regularly assembled executives from major iowa corporations and universities to discuss enhancement of the business environment in iowa. Organized programs attended by over 200 people.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($340k) Expenses 100 ($425k) Net assets 100 ($339k)2018 Revenue 173 ($588k) Expenses 108 ($459k) Net assets 138 ($468k)2019 Revenue 93 ($316k) Expenses 105 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($339k)2020 Revenue 141 ($481k) Expenses 101 ($430k) Net assets 115 ($389k)2021 Revenue 142 ($484k) Expenses 102 ($434k) Net assets 130 ($440k)2022 Revenue 162 ($550k) Expenses 112 ($476k) Net assets 152 ($514k)2023 Revenue 171 ($581k) Expenses 103 ($436k) Net assets 194 ($658k)2024 Revenue 178 ($605k) Expenses 117 ($499k) Net assets 226 ($764k)2025 Revenue 171 ($580k) Expenses 129 ($546k) Net assets 235 ($797k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (129)Net assets (235)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $344k to $499k (+45%).

$344k
$471k
$344k
$499k
$457k
$520k
$659k
$764k
$797k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$85k
’17
$129k
’18
−$129k
’19
$51k
’20
$51k
’21
$74k
’22
$145k
’23
$105k
’24
$34k
’25
18
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.

Board chair

Gage A Kent

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242726242321222423
Joined·+8+4+2+6+0+2+4+4
No longer listed·55472125
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL’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 BUSINESS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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.

04Its place in the field

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In Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL: 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 BUSINESS COUNCIL?
IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,018 to it, the largest being HNI Charitable Foundation ($3,018). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,018 in grants to IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL.
Who is the largest funder of IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL?
HNI Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IOWA BUSINESS COUNCIL 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 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