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IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY (Iowa) receives grants from 333 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,808,584 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($3,385,148,104). 176 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
333
Funders on record
$649M
Grants received
Net assets
176/333 repeat funders
02Who funds it

How concentrated its funding is

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

49% of IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2023, 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

79% of IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

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ID
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GA
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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 STATE UNIVERSITY

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: 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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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 STATE UNIVERSITY?
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY (Iowa) receives grants from 333 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,808,584 to it, the largest being IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($3,385,148,104). 176 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 333 organizations giving $648,808,584 in grants to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, 176 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY?
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,385,148,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 FY2022, and the filings of 333funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing