Iowa · Nonprofit
Linn County Advocate Inc
Linn County Advocate Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $818k
What Linn County Advocate Inc does
Mission
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Attorneys at the Linn County Advocate provided quality representation for hundreds of indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Jones, and Benton Counties in the state of Iowa. Legal services were provided at no upfront cost to clients allowing them to be represented by competent counsel, preservation of constitutionally protected rights in criminal proceedings, and the ability to access discovery and investigative services as part of that representation. Services resulted in numerous acquittals, dismissals, reduced charges, and negotiated sentences for criminal defendants. In juvenile court proceedings attorneys provided representation for children and parents in Child in Need of Assistance cases, delinquency matters, and juveniles in mental health and substance abuse commitment proceedings. These services resulted in family preservation, family reunification, less restrictive placements, child protection, trial advocacy, accessibility to a variety of court ordered and funded services, as well as long term permanency outcomes in the best interests of the children involved.
$1,482,954 spent$1,399,370 earned by the program100% of program spendingEffective July of 2023 Linn County Advocate started to provide supportive services through the utilization of social work case managers to assist criminal defendants in identifying and accessing resources including but not limited to housing, employment, mental health, and sobriety in an effort to reduce recidivism and maintain stability in a community setting.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,482,954.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $782k to $529k (−32%).
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: 2023 4% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Linn County Advocate 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Linn County Advocate Inc'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.
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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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Linn County Advocate 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 Linn County Advocate Inc?
- Linn County Advocate Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MERCY MEDICAL CENTER ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Linn County Advocate Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Linn County Advocate Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Linn County Advocate Inc?
- MERCY MEDICAL CENTER 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 Linn County Advocate 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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