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JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,828 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$70k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$34k
Net assets
$315k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Junior League of Waterloo - Cedar Falls Iowa Inc does

Mission

The junior league of waterloo-cedar falls, iowa, inc. Is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Educational - the organization strives to develop the potential of its members for voluntary participation in community affairs.

    $9,070 spent
    48% of program spending
  2. Charitable - the organization makes donations to other charitable organizations and individuals.

    $9,674 spent
    52% of program spending
  3. Fundraising - to further support fundraising efforts.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,744.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($56k) Net assets 100 ($207k)2018 Revenue 125 ($74k) Expenses 95 ($52k) Net assets 107 ($223k)2019 Revenue 119 ($71k) Expenses 112 ($62k) Net assets 111 ($230k)2020 Revenue 107 ($64k) Expenses 92 ($51k) Net assets 118 ($245k)2021 Revenue 94 ($56k) Expenses 75 ($42k) Net assets 136 ($281k)2022 Revenue 91 ($54k) Expenses 65 ($36k) Net assets 135 ($281k)2023 Revenue 63 ($37k) Expenses 66 ($36k) Net assets 135 ($279k)2024 Revenue 76 ($45k) Expenses 88 ($49k) Net assets 141 ($292k)2025 Revenue 117 ($70k) Expenses 70 ($39k) Net assets 152 ($315k)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (70)Net assets (152)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 2020 to 2021, from $246k to $282k (+15%).

$208k
$223k
$231k
$246k
$282k
$281k
$280k
$292k
$316k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$22k
’18
$9k
’19
$13k
’20
$14k
’21
$18k
’22
$973
’23
−$3k
’24
$31k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $8k → $2k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC’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

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

75% 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC.

59%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 85% · 2022 94% · 2023 72% — 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

99% of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA
OH

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

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’20
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’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

95%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC?
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,828 to it, the largest being OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION ($20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $33,828 in grants to JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA INC?
OTTO SCHOITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WATERLOO - CEDAR FALLS IOWA 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 7 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