Iowa · Nonprofit
RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN
RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID & PHYLLIS MURPHY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $249k
What River City Sculptures on Parade In does
Mission
Promote & maintain art in mason city, ia
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Acquire, construct, setup, maintain and promote sculpture art around the city of mason city.
$138,479 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $138,479.
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 2019 to 2020, from $36k to $145k (+299%).
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.
48% of RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $28k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN’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
RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 67% · 2019 55% · 2020 71% · 2021 79% · 2022 56% · 2023 75% — 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
84% of RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN
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
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN?
- RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID & PHYLLIS MURPHY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $135,000 in grants to RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN?
- THE DAVID & PHYLLIS MURPHY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER CITY SCULPTURES ON PARADE IN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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