Iowa · Nonprofit
LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,936 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($356,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $580k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $421k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Lakes Regional Healthcare Foundation does
Mission
To solicit and receive contributions, gifts, grants, devises, or bequests of real or personal property or both from individuals, foundations, and public and private entities; and to maintain, use and apply, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the income therefrom and the principal thereof, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of lakes regional healthcare, an iowa county hospital, including the purposes of lakes regional healthcare to recruit qualified health care practitioners to serve the residents of the service area of lakes regional healthcare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During this fiscal year, Lakes Regional Healthcare Foundation supported lakes regional healthcare by enhancing emergency services for the community. The foundation allocated 39,260 in funding for the addition of a powered stair chair for the ambulance and for updating the emergency room to better serve patients. The funds also went towards a new air conditioning unit for a hospice patient room and towards employee assistance for relief from the spencer floods.
$39,260 spent49% of program spendingLakes Regional Healthcare Foundation demonstrated its commitment to fostering the next generation of healthcare professionals by providing scholarships to students and staff pursuing advanced careers in health- related fields. During the fiscal year, the foundation awarded 33,384 in scholarships to students and staff. These scholarships were designed to alleviate financial barriers and support academic achievement, allowing recipients to focus on their studies and professional development. Scholarship recipients were selected based on their academic excellence, financial need, and dedication to serving their community in the healthcare field. By investing in education, the foundation aims to address the growing demand for skilled healthcare professionals and ensure that the community has access to high-quality care in the future.
$33,384 spentof which $33,384 as grants42% of program spendingLakes Regional Healthcare Foundation partners with local school districts to deliver diabetes prevention programming. During the fiscal year, the foundation partnered with 1 local school districts and distributed 7,500 in funding to support these programs for school-age children.
$7,500 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $80,144.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+48%).
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.
73% of LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $132.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $34k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Lakes Regional Healthcare Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION’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
LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION?
- LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,936 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($356,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $420,936 in grants to LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $356,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION 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 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