Iowa · Nonprofit
NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY
NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,042 to it, the largest being CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ($57,754). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Nami Black Hawk County does
Mission
Mission: millions of people in the united states, 1 in 5 or nearly 60 million, face the day-to-day reality of living with a mental health condition. Nami, the national alliance on mental illness, is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to providing advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. Nami Black Hawk County (the organization which is the local chapter) is a grassroots mental health organization founded by family members, determined to fight stigma, and to create a system of recovery for people living with mental illness. The organization provides advocacy, education, and mutual support through free classes, educational programs, presentations, support groups, and trainings. The organization works with all people who are affected by mental illness and additionally educates the public about mental illness to improve understanding of people who are living with t
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Nami Black Hawk County serves people with mental illness and/or family members. Services were provided through classes, educational programs, support groups, and community presentations about nami, mental illness, and mental health. Nami provides bi-monthly newsletters. In-kind donation valued at 16,000 for rent and utilities of the facility.
$61,736 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,736.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $176k to $226k (+29%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $17k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
56% 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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 42% · 2021 60% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY
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.
Public support
93%
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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY: 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 NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY?
- NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,042 to it, the largest being CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY ($57,754). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $103,042 in grants to NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY?
- CEDAR VALLEY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $57,754 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI BLACK HAWK COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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