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Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub

Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,922 to it, the largest being CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC ($386,922). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$158k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$399k
Net assets
$156k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub does

Mission

Provide transformational career and technical education (CTE), and connect CTE students to business and trade opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community Foundation for Western Iowa - Women's STEM Grant: provide STEM training to women of all ages in the region. Focus was on solar and wind energy, energy storage, and EV.

    $9,995 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    38% of program spending
  2. Mills County Community: community collaborative space initiative. Furnish a conference and community computer lab for collaboration. Anticipated completion date FY 202

    $8,470 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    32% of program spending
  3. Google Grant: create a modern educational technology environment that supports blended learning, including a Google Classroom and a dedicated Zoom conference space. Anticipated completion date FY 2025.

    $7,997 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    30% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,462.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub’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

Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve51.2mo · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub?
Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $398,922 to it, the largest being CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC ($386,922). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $398,922 in grants to Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub.
Who is the largest funder of Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub?
CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $386,922 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southwest Iowa Technical Career Hub 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 2025–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing