Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,600 to it, the largest being THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ($49,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corplocalportfolio match
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporationlocalportfolio match
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $75k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest UCare Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION’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 MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
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 MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corplocalportfolio matchIA · funds 48 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 42 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines InclocalIA · funds 116 organizations near you
- Iowa Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rehabvisions & Cariant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C Richard Stark Jr & Joan E Stark Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark & Kathy Larson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harman Family Charitable Tr Mainportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Iowa Hospital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
23%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Iowa Medical Society · exempt
- Iowa Medical Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,600 to it, the largest being THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ($49,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $69,600 in grants to IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- THE PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing