Iowa · Nonprofit
OKOBOJI FOUNDATION
OKOBOJI FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,056 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($212,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Inclocal
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $64k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 OKOBOJI FOUNDATION’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
OKOBOJI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 43% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 72% · 2022 53% · 2023 78% — 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
36% of OKOBOJI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
OKOBOJI FOUNDATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k 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.
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. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bravo Greater Des Moines InclocalIA · funds 116 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central IowalocalIA · funds 148 organizations near you
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorage Alumni Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Segal Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elsa Miller Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Goldstein Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rajendra and Pratibha Modi Family Foundationportfolio 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 OKOBOJI FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OKOBOJI FOUNDATION: 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 OKOBOJI FOUNDATION?
- OKOBOJI FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $573,056 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($212,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKOBOJI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $573,056 in grants to OKOBOJI FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKOBOJI FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $212,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKOBOJI FOUNDATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 20funders 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