Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC
IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,064 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($805,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $855k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Iowa Mediation Service Inc does
Mission
To be the premier provider of dispute resolution services (mediation, arbitration, training and consulting) to citizens of iowa and the midwest
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Iowa mediation service handles farmer creditor and farm nuisance mediations under iowa code 654. We are certified by the usda to deal with farm mediation issues. We receive many mediation requests from lenders and other interested parties, processing these and either holding mediation sessions or issuing releases for each case. The average case consists of five lenders and borrowers, we also make ourselves available to all parties in mediation with help preparing for the process if needed.
$543,261 spentof which $300,000 as grants$949,788 earned by the program94% of program spendingTraining and facilitation provided for all interested parties.
$33,388 spent$32,875 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $576,649.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $572k to $1.2M (+110%).
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 52% · 2021 52% · 2023 52% · 2024 30% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Teri Mundell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $110k → $100k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC’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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64 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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC
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
87% 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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC: 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 MEDIATION SERVICE INC?
- IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $855,064 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($805,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $855,064 in grants to IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC?
- GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES is the largest funder on record, with $805,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA MEDIATION SERVICE INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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