Iowa · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,193,979 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,892,294). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Special Olympics Iowa Inc does
Mission
The mission of special olympics iowa is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities by giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes, and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Games and competition provides olympic style training and competition in twenty-three different sports throught the year for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
$1,713,254 spent$111,429 earned by the program67% of program spendingUnified champion schools brings together athletes with and without intellectual disabilities through education, sports, and youth leadership to provide them with the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to create and sustain school communities that promote acceptance and respect.
$628,834 spent25% of program spendingHealthy athletes is a program designed to help special olympics athletes improve their health and fitness. This can lead to a better sports experience and improved well-being. Athletes receive a variety of health services through clinics conducted in welcoming environments at special olympics competitions.
$77,216 spent3% of program spendingYoung athletes play days are an introduction to special olympics. Children participate in eleven different activities, representing eleven different sports offered by special olympics. The program helps increase the young children's strength and coordination for sports while introducing them to group play, cooperation, and awareness of rules.motor activity training introduce team sports adapted for the severe and profound as well as those who are unable to participate in the traditional special olympics programs. Activities, such as bocce, ramp bowling, balloon volleyball, team basketball, basketball shoot, batting, ball darts, golf, shot put, race walk, and wall pass are modified to allow youth and adults to participate in a team or as an individual. Volunteers and switch activated equipment are on site to assist the athletes as they participate in each event.athlete leadership provides an education program to train individuals with intellectual disabilities in literacy, leadership, and speaking skills.
$130,011 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,549,315.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $6.0M (+28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 8% · 2019 14% · 2020 37% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
John Kliegl
President/CEO
Board chair
Thomas Cunningham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $499k → $1.0M.
12 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 50% · 2019 82% · 2020 87% · 2021 83% · 2022 46% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $922k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC (Iowa) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,193,979 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($5,892,294). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $8,193,979 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,892,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 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