Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,938 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,031,037). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-161910
What Iowa Council for International Understanding does
Mission
Iowa international center connects individuals, communities, and organizations across iowa and the world with opportunities to remove language, cultural, and economic barriers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Translation services - this program provides contracted and 24-hour emergency translation services to various organizations throughout iowa.
$257,045 spent$250,400 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe center hosts international visitors from all over the world through this program, intended to build mutual understanding between the u.s. And other countries through carefully designed visits that reflect the participant's professional interests and support u.s. Foreign policy goals.
$108,484 spent$233,980 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $365,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $95k to $141k (+49%).
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: 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 28% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Patricia Grote
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $88k → $301k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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 COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 63% · 2021 93% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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.
Against its field
IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING has grown faster than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: 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 COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING?
- IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,313,938 to it, the largest being GLOBAL TIES US ($1,031,037). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,313,938 in grants to IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING?
- GLOBAL TIES US is the largest funder on record, with $1,031,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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