Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION
IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,486,793 to it, the largest being John Ruan Foundation Trust ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incshared funderslocalportfolio 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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $125k → $62k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Trucking Cares Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS 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 MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 72% · 2019 80% · 2020 46% · 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 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
55% of IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $665k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $822k 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.
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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 302 organizations that share them.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 93 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home State Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kellyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rpc Inc Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daniel J & Ann L Krumm Charitable Trusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EMC Insurance Foundationshared funderslocalIA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- United Way of Central Iowashared funderslocalIA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 148 organizations near you
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 MOTOR CARRIERS 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iowa Motor Truck Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS 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 MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION?
- IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,486,793 to it, the largest being John Ruan Foundation Trust ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,486,793 in grants to IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS FOUNDATION?
- John Ruan Foundation Trust is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA MOTOR CARRIERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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