Iowa · Nonprofit
MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION
MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,892,751 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ($1,347,489). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Muscatine Center for Social Action does
Mission
Mcsa provides housing, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in muscatine county while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless shelter - provides short term housing for men, women and children. Services include shelter, safety, and security, case planning, life and family skills training, and job and housing search support.
$530,505 spent$273,389 earned by the program24% of program spendingHousing stability - provides stabilization and homeless deferral services to families that are on the verge of homelessness.
$1,102,388 spentof which $749,757 as grants$1,088,929 earned by the program49% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing - provide permanent supportive and low income housing options.
$217,000 spent10% of program spendingDomestic violence shelter - provides comprehensive, free, confidential 24- hour services and safe housing to individuals who are survivors of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault and/or their non-offending family members. Rapid rehousing - provides housing referrals for men, women and children that are homeless
$381,632 spentof which $66,289 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,231,525.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.3M to $3.9M (−27%).
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 4% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $236k → $734k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 31% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 65% — 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
63% of MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
96% of MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$984k
- Department of Health and Human Services$415k
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 MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Muscatine Housing Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Comprehensive Housing Solutions LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION?
- MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,892,751 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ($1,347,489). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,892,751 in grants to MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE is the largest funder on record, with $1,347,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION 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.
Play a game about who funds Muscatine Center for Social Action →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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