Iowa · Nonprofit
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,649 to it, the largest being VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($417,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $937k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What North Star Community Services Inc does
Mission
Nscs empowers each person to realize potential, pursue dreams and enjoy life. Services provided are: supported community living, day habilitation, adult day care, respite, and/or cdac services to persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supported community living (scl): services are designed to assist the member with daily living needs. Assistance may include, but is not limited to: community skills, personal needs, personal and home skills, and skills needed to live in the least restrictive setting possible.
$1,852,057 spent$1,090,245 earned by the program61% of program spendingPersonal and social community services - adult day care: an organized program of supportive care in a group environment. The care is provided to members who need a degree of supervision and assistance on a regular or intermittent basis in a day care setting. Day habilitation: services that assist or support the member in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration. Services must enable or enhance the member's intellectual function, socialization and community integration, mobility, communication development, and responsibility and self direction. Housing: services provided in an independent living situation to allow those with disabilities to live independently.
$1,202,992 spent$2,730,750 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,055,049.
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 $4.3M to $4.9M (+14%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 5% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $123k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 78% · 2020 42% · 2021 70% · 2022 43% · 2023 52% — 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
54% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
98% of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES 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. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,649 to it, the largest being VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($417,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $936,649 in grants to NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- VAN G MILLER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $417,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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