Iowa · Nonprofit
JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,924 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $599k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center Inc does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to keeping and enhancing the quality of life for its neighborhood families through services, stewardship of resources and shared responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The senior center program provides a variety of programs to senior citizens, including weekly exercise classes and congregate meals, technology classes, bingo, karaoke, and other group activities, community outings, medication safety programs, and medicare/medicaid updates. During the year ended june 30, 2025, meals were served to 3,500 seniors.
$182,351 spent60% of program spendingThe crisis management programs provided energy and rent assistance for needy members as well as other outreach programs and services. During the year ended june 30, 2025 crisis management services processed 978 applications.
$119,973 spentof which $14,821 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,324.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $91k to $271k (+198%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 56% · 2020 28% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 10% · 2024 5% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Debra Hodges-Harmon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $56k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 63% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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.
Against its field
JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: 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 JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC?
- JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $598,924 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $598,924 in grants to JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC?
- OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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