Iowa · Nonprofit
LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being Peoples Charitable Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Community Lift Corpportfolio match
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
60% of LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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 LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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.
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.
- Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Incshared funderslocalIA · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Community Lift Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooperative Energyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leelanau Township Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighborhood Progress Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homebase Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ef & Sylvia Schildberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Roc USA LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Community Development Finance Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Business Development Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Montana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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.
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 LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being Peoples Charitable Foundation ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- Peoples Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LESTER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing