Iowa · Nonprofit
New Visions Homeless Services
New Visions Homeless Services (Iowa) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,144,090 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,740,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What New Visions Homeless Services does
Mission
Provide help, hope and opportunities to our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness and hunger in the Council Bluffs and Omaha communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Overnight lodging, food, therapy, life skills training, clothing and furnishings, drug and alcohol counseling, employment training, longer term housing. 744 Individuals served in shelter181,525 Meals were served 223 Placed in housing 329 Men and women served in our Street Outreach program 34,968 Bed nights were provided in our shelter
$2,359,918 spent62% of program spendingVeterans Services: Provided to veterans of the United States Armed Forces, including housing, food, medical care, counseling and education.12,150 Bed nights were provided49,275 Meals were served 80 Men were placed in housing 137 Veterans served
$1,464,210 spent38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,824,128.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.0M to $4.3M (−28%).
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 38% · 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 34% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of New Visions Homeless Services’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Brandy N Wallar
President & CEO
Board chair
Joseph D Thornton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $20k → $476k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 New Visions Homeless Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
New Visions Homeless Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 New Visions Homeless Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 45% · 2020 60% · 2021 47% · 2022 38% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of New Visions Homeless Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
New Visions Homeless Services draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
New Visions Homeless Services has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding New Visions Homeless Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.2M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$8.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
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 New Visions Homeless Services
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Council Bluffs Housing Homeless LLC · partnership
- Omaha Housing Homeless LLc · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Visions Homeless Services: 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 New Visions Homeless Services?
- New Visions Homeless Services (Iowa) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,144,090 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,740,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Visions Homeless Services have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,144,090 in grants to New Visions Homeless Services, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Visions Homeless Services?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Visions Homeless Services 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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