Iowa · Nonprofit
PEO Scholar Awards
PEO Scholar Awards (Iowa) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,343,906 to it, the largest being PEO Foundation ($3,307,227). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PEO Scholar Awards holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared funders
- Larkins 2019 Charitable Trust Xxxxx5000portfolio match
- The Enrico Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
77% of PEO Scholar Awards’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 34 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.9M.
1 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PEO Scholar Awards’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
PEO Scholar Awards has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
100% 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 PEO Scholar Awards.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — 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
99% of PEO Scholar Awards's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 41 funders put you typical among the 262 organizations that share them.
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared fundersSD · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Larkins 2019 Charitable Trust Xxxxx5000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enrico Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Milhouse Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Douglas & Angela Braly Family Foundation Co Douglas a Braly and Angela F Bralyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Strada Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womenconnect4good Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thompson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Trammell & Margaret Crow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John & Mary Pappajohn Scholarship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fluor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 219portfolio 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 PEO Scholar Awards
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Int'l Chapter PEO Sisterhood · exempt
- PEO STAR Scholarship · exempt
- PEO Int'l Peace Schol Fund · exempt
- PEO Prog for Continuing Educ · exempt
- PEO Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEO Scholar Awards: 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 PEO Scholar Awards?
- PEO Scholar Awards (Iowa) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,343,906 to it, the largest being PEO Foundation ($3,307,227). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEO Scholar Awards have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $9,343,906 in grants to PEO Scholar Awards, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEO Scholar Awards?
- PEO Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,307,227 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEO Scholar Awards 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 41funders 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