Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,998,516 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,580,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement does
Mission
To empower and unite grassroots people of all races to take control of their communities; involve them in identifying problems and needs; and in taking action to address them; and be a vehicle for social, economic and environmental justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mission of iowa cci is to empower and unite grassroots people of all races to take control of their communities; involve them in identifying problems and needs; and in taking action to address them; and be a vehicle for social, economic and environmental justice.
$1,417,056 spentof which $222,750 as grants$19,668 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,417,056.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.6M (+53%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Elisabeth Whelan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $358k → $996k.
20 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 29% · 2019 35% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
42% of IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
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
68%
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 CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: 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 CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT?
- IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,998,516 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,580,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,998,516 in grants to IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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