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SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,670 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$119k
Net assets
$432k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Southeast Polk Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

Raise money for southeast polk education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide funding for enrichment, programs, scholarships and projects outside the usual funding stream of the southeast polk school district.

    $36,903 spentof which $30,959 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,903.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($112k)2018 Revenue 77 ($44k) Expenses 48 ($29k) Net assets 118 ($132k)2019 Revenue 239 ($139k) Expenses 186 ($112k) Net assets 155 ($174k)2020 Revenue 558 ($323k) Expenses 471 ($284k) Net assets 202 ($227k)2021 Revenue 259 ($150k) Expenses 221 ($133k) Net assets 227 ($255k)2022 Revenue 199 ($115k) Expenses 150 ($90k) Net assets 224 ($252k)2023 Revenue 312 ($181k) Expenses 213 ($128k) Net assets 290 ($326k)2024 Revenue 276 ($160k) Expenses 187 ($112k) Net assets 343 ($384k)2025 Revenue 119 ($69k) Expenses 79 ($48k) Net assets 385 ($432k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (79)Net assets (385)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 2022 to 2023, from $252k to $326k (+29%).

$112k
$132k
$174k
$227k
$255k
$252k
$326k
$384k
$432k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$15k
’18
$27k
’19
$40k
’20
$17k
’21
$25k
’22
$52k
’23
$47k
’24
$21k
’25
17
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.

20202022202320242025
Listed1110111212
Joined··+3+2+2
No longer listed··212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $32k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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

SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

42%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 48% — 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

53% of SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,670 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $118,670 in grants to SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHEAST POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC 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 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