Iowa · Nonprofit
METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES
METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,848 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $0
What Metro Arts Alliance of Greater Des Moines does
Mission
Promoted arts in Des Moines, Iowa area. Organization ceased operations and dissolved in September 2017 for lack of funding.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Jazz in July free concert series
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES’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
METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
100% 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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES.
“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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES: 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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES?
- METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,848 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,848 in grants to METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES.
- Who is the largest funder of METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES?
- BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC 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 METRO ARTS ALLIANCE OF GREATER DES MOINES 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), 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