Iowa · Nonprofit
Reaching Higher Iowa
Reaching Higher Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MERCY HEALTH NETWORK INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $250
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Reaching Higher Iowa does
Mission
Reaching Higher Iowa is commited to advocating for a more effective Iowa K-12 public education system to provide opportunities for every child and to foster long-term economic growth in the State of Iowa.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
RESEARCH AND POLICY DEVELOPEMENT - Conducting research on K-12 public education in Iowa and increasing educational opportunities.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $27k to $6k (−78%).
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.
100% of Reaching Higher Iowa’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Reaching Higher 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
Reaching Higher Iowa leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
60% 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 Reaching Higher Iowa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Reaching Higher Iowa's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Reaching Higher Iowa's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,681 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like Reaching Higher 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
41%
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 Reaching Higher Iowa: 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 Reaching Higher Iowa?
- Reaching Higher Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MERCY HEALTH NETWORK INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Reaching Higher Iowa have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to Reaching Higher Iowa, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Reaching Higher Iowa?
- MERCY HEALTH NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Reaching Higher 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 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