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ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION

ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,712 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($30,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$76k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$97k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What Rotary Club of Ames Foundation does

Mission

To advance the rotary avenues of service. The foundation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To advance the rotary avenues of service. The foundation is organized exclusivelyfor charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

    $285,323 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $285,323.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2019 Revenue 100 ($201k) Expenses 197 ($95k) Net assets 139 ($378k)2020 Revenue 50 ($101k) Expenses 803 ($388k) Net assets 33 ($91k)2021 Revenue 16 ($32k) Expenses 53 ($25k) Net assets 36 ($97k)2022 Revenue 35 ($71k) Expenses 62 ($30k) Net assets 51 ($139k)2023 Revenue 40 ($80k) Expenses 111 ($53k) Net assets 61 ($166k)2024 Revenue 77 ($154k) Expenses 29 ($14k) Net assets 113 ($306k)2025 Revenue 38 ($76k) Expenses 591 ($285k) Net assets 36 ($97k)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (591)Net assets (36)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $378k to $91k (−76%).

$272k
$378k
$91k
$97k
$139k
$166k
$306k
$97k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
’18
$105k
’19
−$287k
’20
$7k
’21
$42k
’22
$27k
’23
$140k
’24
−$209k
’25
1.2
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

201820192020
Listed999
Joined·+0+2
No longer listed·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $19k → $41k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ROTARY CLUB OF AMES 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

ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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

100% 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 ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 61% — 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

100% of ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION's revenue fell 62% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−275% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In Iowa

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION?
ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,712 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($30,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,712 in grants to ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROTARY CLUB OF AMES FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $30,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROTARY CLUB OF AMES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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