Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,240 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($705,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $849k
- Net assets
- $406k
What Iowa Freedom of Information Council does
Mission
The council is organized exclusively as a nonpartisan, nonprofit education and advocacy organization that works to promote and preserve transparency and open, accessible and accountable state and local government in iowa. The council pursues its mission through education of citizens, journalists and government officials and employees, through advocacy initiatives in the iowa legislature and in state and federal courts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The iowa foi council is a coalition of journalists, librarians, lawyers, educators and other iowans devoted to open government.
$27,617 spent$28,625 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,617.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $286k to $406k (+42%).
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.
69% of IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $72k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $144k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL?
- IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $849,240 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($705,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $849,240 in grants to IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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