Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD
IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,825 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($352,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $571k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Iowa Gold Star Military Museum Board does
Mission
The iowa gold star military museum's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. The museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate the story of iowa's military past from statehood to the present. The iowa gold star museum honors the heroic service of all iowa veterans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Iowa Gold Star Military Museum Board's mission is to honor and depict the military experience of iowa citizens in all wars, homeland defense and iowa service. The museum's purpose is to collect, preserve and exhibit materials that illustrate the story of iowa's military past from statehood to the present. The iowa gold star museum honors the heroic service of all iowa veterans.
$24,994 spent$11,812 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,994.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.2M to $1.3M (+5%).
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.
82% of IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $90k → $38k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD’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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
93% 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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 74% · 2022 55% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD
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
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD: 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 GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD?
- IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,825 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($352,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $570,825 in grants to IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD?
- BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC is the largest funder on record, with $352,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA GOLD STAR MILITARY MUSEUM BOARD 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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