Iowa · Nonprofit
IOWA POLICY PROJECT
IOWA POLICY PROJECT (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $660,680 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $661k
- Net assets
- $0
What Iowa Policy Project does
Mission
The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research and engaging the public in an informed discussion of policy alternatives, Iowa Policy Project advances effective, accountable and fair government.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Iowa Policy Project produces reports that cover a variety of research efforts. These reports are designed to better inform the public and effect broader areas of public policy. Reports published include policy briefs and research notes including some guest opinions.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $142k → $200.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 POLICY PROJECT’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 POLICY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 POLICY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 39% · 2019 42% · 2020 75% · 2021 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of IOWA POLICY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 FY2021, 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
IOWA POLICY PROJECT draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like IOWA POLICY PROJECT
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
26%
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 POLICY PROJECT: 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 POLICY PROJECT?
- IOWA POLICY PROJECT (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $660,680 to it, the largest being Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IOWA POLICY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $660,680 in grants to IOWA POLICY PROJECT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IOWA POLICY PROJECT?
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IOWA POLICY PROJECT 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 10 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