Iowa · Nonprofit
PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION
PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,037 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($220,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
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.
- United Way of Siouxland Incshared funderslocal
- Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltdportfolio match
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
82% of PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $230k.
2 of 5 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 PLYWOOD TRAIL 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
PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
82% of PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 301 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Siouxland Incshared funderslocalIA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you
- Peopleforbikes Coalition Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Forest Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leonard C Grasso Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peopleforbikes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haselton Gove Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Outride fka The Specialized Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Trailsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James a Childs and Susan M Childs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System 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 PLYWOOD TRAIL 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.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PLYWOOD TRAIL 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 PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION?
- PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,037 to it, the largest being MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC ($220,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $291,037 in grants to PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLYWOOD TRAIL FOUNDATION?
- MISSOURI RIVER HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLYWOOD TRAIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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