Iowa · Nonprofit
MARYS HELPING HANDS
MARYS HELPING HANDS (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,843 to it, the largest being Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc ($62,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MARYS HELPING HANDS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services 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.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocal
- Donald D Lynch Family Foundationportfolio match
- Charles a Sullivan Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
93% of MARYS HELPING HANDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $57k → $20k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARYS HELPING HANDS’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
MARYS HELPING HANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARYS HELPING HANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 65% · 2023 64% — 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
99% of MARYS HELPING HANDS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Golf Charitable Foundation of Greater Des Moinesshared funderslocalIA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you
- Donald D Lynch Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles a Sullivan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Weingartz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Lifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vitamin Angel Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Virginia Pregnancy Center Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Diaper Bank Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knights of Columbus Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cpps Heritage Mission Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida K of C Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Life - Missouri Incportfolio 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 MARYS HELPING HANDS
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARYS HELPING HANDS: 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 MARYS HELPING HANDS?
- MARYS HELPING HANDS (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,843 to it, the largest being Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc ($62,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYS HELPING HANDS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $196,843 in grants to MARYS HELPING HANDS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYS HELPING HANDS?
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc is the largest funder on record, with $62,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYS HELPING HANDS 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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