Iowa · Nonprofit
SKATE DSM
SKATE DSM (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Skate Dsm does
Mission
Our vision is that greater des moines becomes a community where skateboarding is a celebrated activity, for people of all ages and backgrounds, that fosters community, creativity, health, perseverance and leadership. Skate Dsm's mission is to harness the positive aspects of skateboarding to create a positive impact in central iowa through a collaborative approach. Working for the skating community with public and private organizations to facilitate programs and events, educate, and build positive relationship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Working for the skating community with public and private organizations to facilitate programs and events, educate, and build positive relationships.
$127,225 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,225.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $25k to $78k (+210%).
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.
76% of SKATE DSM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $13k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 SKATE DSM’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
SKATE DSM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
75% 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 SKATE DSM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 60% · 2023 80% — 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 SKATE DSM's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Against its field
SKATE DSM has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SKATE DSM
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
100%
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 SKATE DSM: 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 SKATE DSM?
- SKATE DSM (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKATE DSM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $51,000 in grants to SKATE DSM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKATE DSM?
- VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKATE DSM 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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