Iowa · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,376 to it, the largest being CITY OF OTTUMWA IOWA TRUST 151513345700 ($29,766). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 764 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 764 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Delta Dental of Iowa Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Wapello County Inclocal
- Iowa West Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 79% · 2019 34% · 2020 24% · 2021 34% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% · 2024 43% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MAIN STREET OTTUMWA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $21.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $116k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAIN STREET OTTUMWA raised.
From the IRS filings of MAIN STREET OTTUMWA’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 OTTUMWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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.
- Delta Dental of Iowa Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Wapello County InclocalIA · funds 10 organizations near you
- Iowa West Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veridian Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boston Main Streets Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodward Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MidAmerican Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation for Western Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wellmark Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miles Charitable TrustlocalMN · funds 6 organizations near you
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.
Government funding MAIN STREET OTTUMWA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAIN STREET OTTUMWA
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MAIN STREET OTTUMWA: 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 MAIN STREET OTTUMWA?
- MAIN STREET OTTUMWA (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,376 to it, the largest being CITY OF OTTUMWA IOWA TRUST 151513345700 ($29,766). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET OTTUMWA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $50,376 in grants to MAIN STREET OTTUMWA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET OTTUMWA?
- CITY OF OTTUMWA IOWA TRUST 151513345700 is the largest funder on record, with $29,766 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET OTTUMWA 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 6funders 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