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 ($29,766). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $231k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Main Street Ottumwa does
Mission
To improve the social and economic well-being of our district by capitalizing on the unique identity, assets and character of the downtown ottumwa area using the comrehensive main street four point approach.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
To promote southeast iowa as the hub for arts, entertainment, commerce, residential and employment opportunities. To promote restored buildings with restaurants, retail and specialty shops. To promote retaining and attracting new businesses and professionals to the city center. To beautify the downtown area to welcome new and returning iowans and be home to more people who choose to stay or return to the community.
$159,468 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,468.
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 2017 to 2018, from $55k to $142k (+159%).
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% · 2026 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% 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 10 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 $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.
Against its field
MAIN STREET OTTUMWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 47 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 47 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
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
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
84% 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.
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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 ($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 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing