Iowa · Nonprofit
MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC
MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,883,359 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($800,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $0
What Mound Farm Holdings Inc does
Mission
Catholic university providing student focused baccalaureate and graduate education in the spirit of the sisters of mercy. Welcomes women and men of all beliefs to join the community in pursuit of education and service to those in need. Promotes reflective judgment, strategic communication, the common good and purposeful living through a core curriculum, liberal arts and professional majors and student development programs. Strive for excellence in accomplishing our mission through four interdependent goals: using reflective judgment, engaging in strategic communication, serving the common good and promoting purposeful living.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Mount mercy university merged with st. Ambrose university during fy25. As a result of that merger st. Ambrose took over all programs from mount mercy university.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Instruction: provide graduate and undergraduate higher education in programs including traditional daytime format, non traditional evening format, online, and accelerated evening and weekend format. Degrees granted include mft, msn, mba, msl, msscm, ma and ms in education, dmft, and dnp (graduate programs) and ba, bs, bas, bsn and bba (undergraduate programs). For fall of 2024, there were 1,021 traditional, 16 accelerated, 164 graduate, 100 online traditional, and 101 online graduate students. Total undergraduate fte was 1,074; graduate fte was 231.
$109,268,325 spentof which $109,265,602 as grants$43,148,544 earned by the program68% of program spendingAuxiliary services: provide residence halls with capacity of 450 students, meals (food plans) for residential and non-residential students and bookstore for textbook purchases.
$12,363,180 spent$5,977,830 earned by the program8% of program spendingAcademic support: provide academic resources to all students including library services, computer center and labs, academic assistance and campus ministries.
$12,807,425 spent8% of program spendingStudent services: athletics, health services, admissions and financial aid.
$25,653,887 spentof which $25,653,887 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,092,817.
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 2024 to 2025, from $100M to $0 (−100%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 11% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 broadened from 22 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.1M.
11 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. 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
MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% 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 MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
49% of MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- Department of Education$7.6M
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 MOUND FARM HOLDINGS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUND FARM HOLDINGS 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 MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC?
- MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,883,359 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($800,000). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,883,359 in grants to MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUND FARM HOLDINGS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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