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MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC

MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,250 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE VINCENT DEARDORF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$247k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$295k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Main Street Fort Dodge Inc does

Mission

Main street fort dodge is a volunteer organization that fosters public-private partnerships, to revitalize and market historic downtown fort dodge.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Working to reclaim the downtown's historical purpose and prosperity by revitalizing the culture and character of its original merchant district.

    $225,652 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $225,652.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($176k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($459k)2020 Revenue 104 ($183k) Expenses 182 ($188k) Net assets 99 ($454k)2021 Revenue 75 ($132k) Expenses 97 ($100k) Net assets 97 ($445k)2022 Revenue 54 ($95k) Expenses 212 ($219k) Net assets 70 ($321k)2023 Revenue 140 ($247k) Expenses 265 ($274k) Net assets 64 ($295k)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (140)Expenses (265)Net assets (64)

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 $464k to $342k (−26%).

$460k
$469k
$464k
$342k
$315k
20192020202120222023
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 75% · 2020 69% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$73k
’19
−$4k
’20
$33k
’21
−$124k
’22
−$27k
’23
11
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

Sharon Stroh

Executive director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

20192020202120222023
Listed1111101011
Joined·+1+4+0+1
No longer listed·1500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $5k.

From the IRS filings of MAIN STREET FORT DODGE 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

MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

100% of MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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

’18
’19
’21
’22
Iowa out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC

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

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAIN STREET FORT DODGE 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 MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC?
MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,250 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE VINCENT DEARDORF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,250 in grants to MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET FORT DODGE INC?
THE CATHERINE VINCENT DEARDORF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAIN STREET FORT DODGE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 3 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