Iowa · Nonprofit
NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC
NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,500 to it, the largest being SCHILDBERG FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,243 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Southwest Iowa Housing Trust Fundlocal
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio match
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
0% of NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC’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
NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“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 NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Southwest Iowa Housing Trust FundlocalIA · funds 4 organizations near you
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinney-Lindstrom Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Trailsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grand Rapids Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farrer Endowment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation for Western Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Riverboat Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
24%
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 NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC?
- NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,500 to it, the largest being SCHILDBERG FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,500 in grants to NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS INC?
- SCHILDBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NISHNA VALLEY TRAILS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing