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IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY

IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $231,549 to it, the largest being HENRY ALBERT FUND ($231,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$232k
Net assets
$8.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Iowa Medical Society does

Mission

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education and engagement with physisicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patient they serve. Approximately 3,039 members during 2024.

  2. Planning and organization of various events for members of Iowa Medical Society.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 92 ($1.8M) Expenses 106 ($2.0M) Net assets 104 ($6.8M)2020 Revenue 95 ($1.9M) Expenses 90 ($1.7M) Net assets 110 ($7.2M)2021 Revenue 131 ($2.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.8M) Net assets 122 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 114 ($2.2M) Expenses 84 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 94 ($1.8M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 120 ($7.9M)2024 Revenue 101 ($2.0M) Expenses 104 ($2.0M) Net assets 128 ($8.4M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (101)Expenses (104)Net assets (128)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.6M to $8.4M (+10%).

$6.9M
$7.3M
$7.6M
$8.4M
$7.7M
$8.4M
$8.8M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’18
−$223k
’19
$131k
’20
$691k
’21
$612k
’22
−$93k
’23
$1k
’24
6.6
months of
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

Churchill Steven W

CEO

Board chair

Erdahl Lillian

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed21242629302021
Joined·+3+5+12+14+20+7
No longer listed·03913306
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $23k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $842k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Iowa Medical Society Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY raised.

From the IRS filings of IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY’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.

Where its funders are

IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Iowa Medical Society Foundation · exempt
  • Iowa Medical Political Action Committee · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY?
IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $231,549 to it, the largest being HENRY ALBERT FUND ($231,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $231,549 in grants to IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY?
HENRY ALBERT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $231,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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