Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA FIRST FUND
IOWA FIRST FUND (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,000 to it, the largest being IOWA ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mid-Iowa Health Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Grinnell Regional Medical Centershared funders
- Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $127k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of IOWA FIRST FUND’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 FIRST FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FIRST FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 53% — 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
0% of IOWA FIRST FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
94% of IOWA FIRST FUND'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Mid-Iowa Health Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 68 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Grinnell Regional Medical Centershared fundersIA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veridian Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Farm Bureau Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daniel J & Ann L Krumm Charitable Trusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 55 Green Meadowsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neal and Bea Smith Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dne Caplan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IOWA FIRST FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA FIRST FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA FIRST FUND?
- IOWA FIRST FUND (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,000 to it, the largest being IOWA ECONOMIC ALLIANCE ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA FIRST FUND have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $562,000 in grants to IOWA FIRST FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA FIRST FUND?
- IOWA ECONOMIC ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA FIRST FUND 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing