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PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA

PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being WEILER FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$171k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$118k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Pony Express Riders of Iowa does

Mission

Primary purpose of the organization is to raise funds for the benefit of the easter seal society of iowa, inc. (easter seals) in order to support their charitable purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Services for individuals with disabilities: funds raised for easter seals camp sunnyside. Easter seals is a charitable nonprofit organization serving persons with disabilities.

    $130,014 spentof which $95,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $130,014.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($276k) Expenses 100 ($252k) Net assets 100 ($144k)2018 Revenue 71 ($195k) Expenses 93 ($234k) Net assets 73 ($106k)2019 Revenue 82 ($227k) Expenses 85 ($213k) Net assets 83 ($120k)2020 Revenue 43 ($118k) Expenses 41 ($104k) Net assets 92 ($133k)2021 Revenue 57 ($157k) Expenses 69 ($175k) Net assets 80 ($115k)2022 Revenue 71 ($194k) Expenses 77 ($195k) Net assets 79 ($114k)2023 Revenue 69 ($191k) Expenses 32 ($82k) Net assets 155 ($224k)2024 Revenue 71 ($197k) Expenses 32 ($82k) Net assets 155 ($224k)2025 Revenue 62 ($171k) Expenses 64 ($162k) Net assets 82 ($118k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (64)Net assets (82)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $114k to $224k (+96%).

$144k
$106k
$120k
$133k
$115k
$114k
$224k
$224k
$118k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’17
−$39k
’18
$14k
’19
$13k
’20
−$18k
’21
−$546
’22
$110k
’23
$115k
’24
$9k
’25
8.7
months of
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.

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Listed202020212020212020
Joined·+5+9+2+2+4+8+8+16
No longer listed·591347916
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA’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

PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA?
PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being WEILER FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,200 in grants to PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA.
Who is the largest funder of PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA?
WEILER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PONY EXPRESS RIDERS OF IOWA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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