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JOPPA

JOPPA (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,302,486 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,247,424). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
47
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$-350811
29/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Joppa does

Mission

Homeless services, housing, education, and thrift stores to help homeless people survive and find housing, and ultimately to help end homelessness. See schedule o

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Homeless services: each week, trained Joppa volunteers visit families and individuals living under bridges, in tents, and in vehicles. We build relationships; provide food, water, and other essential survival items; and connect people with existing resources. During winters, Joppa provides heater systems, insulated boots, winter gear, and tents, and our heat teams make weekly fuel deliveries to help people survive the brutally cold weather. Joppa also offers usps mailing addresses and mail deliveries, a homeless nutrition program, transportation, job development, and housing assistance.Joppa operates a homeless resource center, serving approx. 8,000 homeless visitors annually. The center offers essential resources, supplies, and referrals to help individuals survive, secure housing, and successfully transition into permanent homes.Joppa has helped more than 800 people off the streets, over 80% of whom remain off the streets today. We do this by engaging the community to give their time, talents, and resources. We work together to help people access resources, including working with existing housing agencies, social service agencies, private landlords, and property owners to…

    $1,367,447 spent
    61% of program spending
  2. Joppa has a nonprofit thrift store, dba "thriftmart", to help us achieve our mission by providing a sustainable source of income for core operations. It also raises awareness about homeless issues and solutions and offers job training opportunities for people working their way out of homelessness.

    $503,014 spent$468,001 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  3. Education advocacy: Joppa educates the community-from kids to adults-about the root causes of homelessness, which helps build understanding and overcome misconceptions and stigmas. Whether through video productions, newsletters, social media, group presentations, classes, or a one-on-one conversation, we are dedicated to raising awareness and softening hearts towards our poorest citizens.Joppa organizes the following signature events yearly to engage and educate the public: iowa homeless memorial, homeless christmas celebration, and Joppa annual gala. Joppa also advocates for people experiencing homelessness and creates awareness for issues affecting the local homeless community.

    $249,167 spent
    11% of program spending
  4. Housing development: as part of our mission to prevent and end homelessness, Joppa is working with city and county officials to build iowa's first "tiny home village" of cottage homes to provide a safe, permanent supportive housing community for chronically homeless people.

    $110,861 spent
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,230,489.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($141k)2019 Revenue 123 ($1.9M) Expenses 112 ($1.7M) Net assets 247 ($348k)2020 Revenue 83 ($1.3M) Expenses 82 ($1.3M) Net assets 269 ($378k)2021 Revenue 150 ($2.3M) Expenses 132 ($2.0M) Net assets 490 ($691k)2022 Revenue 116 ($1.8M) Expenses 159 ($2.5M) Net assets 35 ($49k)2023 Revenue 130 ($2.0M) Expenses 171 ($2.6M) Net assets -395 ($-556761)2024 Revenue 191 ($3.0M) Expenses 186 ($2.9M) Net assets -309 ($-434743)2025 Revenue 160 ($2.5M) Expenses 156 ($2.4M) Net assets -249 ($-350811)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (156)Net assets (-249)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $3.6M (+47%).

$164k
$363k
$584k
$1.3M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$3.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of JOPPA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’18
$207k
’19
$30k
’20
$312k
’21
−$641k
’22
−$606k
’23
$122k
’24
$84k
’25
6.0
months of
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

Joe Stevens

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed56666666
Joined·+2+1+2+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·1122100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $39k → $635k.

14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 JOPPA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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

JOPPA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 JOPPA.

38%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 60% · 2019 42% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 76% · 2023 63% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of JOPPA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of JOPPA'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 $835k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Iowa funders.

MN
WI
NY
IA
PA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JOPPA is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JOPPA

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 1%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOPPA?
JOPPA (Iowa) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,302,486 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,247,424). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JOPPA have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $3,302,486 in grants to JOPPA, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JOPPA?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,247,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOPPA 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing