Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE
IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE (Iowa) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,071,993 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($585,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $705k
What Iowa Healthiest State Initiative does
Mission
Creating awareness and integrating solutions to improve the physical, social, and mental well-being of iowans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Double up food bucks: food insecurity and lack of access to healthy food are problems that many low-income families in iowa communities experience. Double up food bucks is an incentive program that matches snap (food assistance) dollars spent at farmers markets and grocery stores in iowa so snap recipients have greater access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Double up food bucks served 11,183 individuals.
$2,306,110 spentof which $524,408 as grants82% of program spendingProduce rx: prescriptions work to help foster healthier eating habits to prevent and manage chronic diseases while improving nutrition insecurity. It is a tool for health care professionals to refer their patients to receive nutrition education and financial incentives to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. Produce rx served 600 individuals.
$189,584 spentof which $62,853 as grants7% of program spendingCommunity education: to provide education and networking opportunities through the annual awards and conference that brings together workplaces, schools, early care, out of school, healthcare and communities in support of improving the physical, social and emotional wellbeing of iowans. Community education served 75,000 individuals.
$108,752 spentof which $13,750 as grants$17,535 earned by the program4% of program spendingMake it ok: a community campaign to reduce stigma by starting conversations and increasing understanding about mental illness. Make it ok served 120,000 individuals.
$103,827 spent$4,489 earned by the program4% of program spending5-2-1-0 healthy choices count: parents. Teachers. Health care providers. Business leaders. When it comes to kids, there's one thing everyone wants for them to be healthy! That's why iowa has created healthy choices count! It's a health-focused movement for kids that's under the nationally recognized program, 5-2-1-0. This proven, scientific method helps keep kids healthy by focusing on the importance of good habits. And it all starts by encouraging them to eat and play the right way. It's how they can live 5-2-1-0. We partner with early care providers, schools, health care institutions, parents, and community organizations for families in places where we live, learn, work, and play. 5-2-1-0 healthy choices count served 42,000 individuals.
$96,904 spentof which $1,000 as grants$1,617 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,805,177.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $717k (−71%).
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: 2020 75% · 2021 78% · 2022 40% · 2023 60% · 2024 55% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Jami Haberl
Secretary/executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $71k → $243k.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE’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 HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 60% · 2019 28% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% — 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
31% of IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
80% of IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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 HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$11.9M
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 HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE?
- IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE (Iowa) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,071,993 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($585,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,071,993 in grants to IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE?
- GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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