Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA DONOR NETWORK
IOWA DONOR NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375,911 to it, the largest being Allosource ($919,529). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Iowa Donor Network does
Mission
Working together to transform lives through the gift of organ and tissue donation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organ and tissue recovery:Iowa Donor Network (idn) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that operates as the primary contact for organ, tissue and eye donation services in the state of iowa. The centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) has certified idn to function as the single organ procurement organization serving the state of iowa. Idn also provides tissue recovery services. In 2025, organ recovery services generated $28,527,164 in revenues while tissue recovery services contributed $10,858,480 toward revenues. Through referral calls from 311 iowa hospitals, health centers, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, hospices, medical examiner offices, ems agencies, and other referring organizations, idn evaluated 13,913 patient deaths in 2025 for the potential for organ and tissue donation. To maintain this referral network and provide organ and tissue donation services, idn engages in many interrelated activities: organ and tissue recovery, organ distribution both of locally recovered organs and those brought in from out-of-state donors, public education and awareness activities, hospital and community donor referral development, and donor family care and follow-up…
$31,586,387 spent$39,385,644 earned by the program92% of program spendingHospital development, public education, and donor family services:idn is committed to meeting all hospitals' educational and compliance needs regarding donation. This includes: training in the identification, referral and management of organ donors, sensitivity and timing for approaching potential donor families with the option of donation and reporting on organ and tissue donor potential and outcomes to hospital administration for use, as necessary, with their own compliance and accreditation reporting.every hospital, medical examiner's office, dmv office, and ems program in iowa has an assigned idn representative whose job it is to make sure that personnel know how and when to contact idn for donation assistance. Idn staff work with hospitals and assigned agencies to develop protocols or policies and procedures related to referral for organ and tissue donation. Other duties include: meeting with hospital/ agency leadership and personnel to engage support for organ and tissue donation, follow-up after each organ referral and follow-up with staff after each organ or tissue recovery. Idn has a department with trained staff dedicated to providing donor family care services at the…
$2,710,065 spent$27,551 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,296,452.
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 2024 to 2025, from $38M to $29M (−24%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of IOWA DONOR NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Mike Hensch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $119k → $66k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 DONOR NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 DONOR NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 DONOR NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 80% · 2021 49% · 2022 78% · 2023 92% — 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
13% of IOWA DONOR NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 DONOR NETWORK draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 DONOR NETWORK has grown faster than half of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA DONOR NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $189 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $189
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 DONOR NETWORK
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 DONOR NETWORK: 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 DONOR NETWORK?
- IOWA DONOR NETWORK (Iowa) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375,911 to it, the largest being Allosource ($919,529). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA DONOR NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,375,911 in grants to IOWA DONOR NETWORK, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA DONOR NETWORK?
- Allosource is the largest funder on record, with $919,529 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA DONOR NETWORK 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 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing