Iowa · Nonprofit
PRESENTATION LANTERN
PRESENTATION LANTERN (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,907 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($177,793). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $331k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Presentation Lantern does
Mission
The center offers in-person hospitality, educational opportunities and advocacy to adult immigrants, especially women, who are striving to better their lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The center offers hospitality, educational opportunities and advocacy to adult immigrants, especially women, who are striving to better their lives. In 2024, 174 volunteers gave a total of 4,878 hours of volunteer service to support the programs. The center provided united states history and government tutoring in preparation for the citizenship test. The center also provided literacy tutoring in reading, speaking and listening in english. Programs were offered both in person and online. Online tutoring for students in the area include delivery of textbooks, food, household goods, care packages, etc. For students with financial need and no family in the area. 139 immigrant students were paired over the course of the year to study english and citizenship. The center offers a daca scholarship program, allowing up to $500 scholarships to daca recipients or dacaeligible, each year (geared toward precollege, college, postcollege teens and adults who may benefit from financial assistance in paying the hefty biannual paperwork renewal fees of over $500, or have a need for support with books, tuition, or other vital needs pertinent to obtaining formal job training or education). 14 daca…
$171,215 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,215.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $2.9M (−17%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 11% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Megan Ruiz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $42k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 PRESENTATION LANTERN’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
PRESENTATION LANTERN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 PRESENTATION LANTERN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 83% · 2020 78% · 2021 52% · 2022 40% · 2023 60% — 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
57% of PRESENTATION LANTERN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
60% of PRESENTATION LANTERN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $131k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like PRESENTATION LANTERN
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESENTATION LANTERN: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESENTATION LANTERN?
- PRESENTATION LANTERN (Iowa) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,907 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($177,793). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRESENTATION LANTERN have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $330,907 in grants to PRESENTATION LANTERN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESENTATION LANTERN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE is the largest funder on record, with $177,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESENTATION LANTERN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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