Iowa · Nonprofit
St Mark Youth Enrichment
St Mark Youth Enrichment (Iowa) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,988,231 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($628,252). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What St Mark Youth Enrichment does
Mission
To provide innovative programs and services that cultivate the educational and social-emotional growth of youth and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
St. Mark Early Childhood In September 2025 St. Mark began providing an early childhood program for children from birth until they enter kindergarten. The Mission of St. Mark Early Childhood Center is to create natural environments filled with Love, Safety and Belonging so that every child has the skills they need to succeed. At St. Mark Early Childhood Center, we believe that every child deserves a nurturing environment where they feel loved, safe, and supported as they begin their journey. Our program emphasizes the importance of nature, allowing children to explore the world around them, feel the grass between their toes, and experience the wonders of outdoor play. By connecting with nature, we foster curiosity, resilience, and a deep sense of empathy, helping children build the skills they need to grow into confident and compassionate individuals.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
St. Mark Youth Enrichment is a non-profit community-based organization located in Dubuque, Iowa with the mission to provide innovative programs and services that cultivate the educational and social-emotional growth of youth and families. St. Mark puts this mission into action with quality after school and summer learning programs for K-5 students that focus on literacy, STEM, arts, social-emotional learning, and family engagement.St. Mark programs address the academic and social emotional needs of students located in our communities by offering safe and nurturing learning environments out of school time for students in need. (Statement continued on Schedule O)St. Mark does this through activities that engage students and families in active and innovative learning, enrichment opportunities, field trips that deepens community connection, social-emotional skill building, and making strong and healthy relationships.St. Mark is governed by a Board of Directors, made up of professionals in various fields, who provide guidance through committees: executive, governance, finance, events, development and marketing, and building and grounds. Daily operations are led by an Executive Director.
$851,801 spent$112,141 earned by the program68% of program spendingApples for StudentsSt. Mark Youth Enrichment Apples for Students provides school supplies to students in need in Dubuque, Western Dubuque, and surrounding areas. School supplies were provided to 3,600 students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch.Apples for Students is organized and facilitated by St. Mark in collaboration with the schools, area businesses, and community volunteers. Every year in May/June, the process begins to identify students in need and every year we identify increasing numbers of students. (Statement continued on Schedule O)Students in need are referred to us by their schools or a human service agency. We then solicit the community by approaching individuals, churches, and area businesses to donate money to purchase the supplies. St. Mark buys supplies in bulk because it is cost effective to do this during the months of July and August. In August, St. Mark rallies 100 volunteers that organize and sort the supplies, package the required materials by grade and needs of the school, deliver the supplies, and clean up. Approximately 400 hours of volunteer work takes place. Individual bags of school supplies are then delivered to the school buildings where…
$50,329 spentof which $50,329 as grants4% of program spendingSt. Mark Early Childhood The Mission of St. Mark Early Childhood Center is to create natural environments filled with Love, Safety and Belonging so that every child has the skills they need to succeed.At St. Mark Early Childhood Center, we believe that every child deserves a nurturing environment where they feel loved, safe, and supported as they begin their journey. (Statement continued on Schedule O)Our program emphasizes the importance of nature, allowing children to explore the world around them, feel the grass between their toes, and experience the wonders of outdoor play. By connecting with nature, we foster curiosity, resilience, and a deep sense of empathy, helping children build the skills they need to grow into confident and compassionate individuals.
$356,406 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,258,536.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $569k to $1.2M (+118%).
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 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 35% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 33% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Dawn Cogan
Executive Director
Board chair
Nikki Kiefer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $40k → $231k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 St Mark Youth Enrichment’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
St Mark Youth Enrichment leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 St Mark Youth Enrichment.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 33% · 2021 47% · 2022 46% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of St Mark Youth Enrichment's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
62% of St Mark Youth Enrichment'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 $757k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like St Mark Youth Enrichment
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds St Mark Youth Enrichment?
- St Mark Youth Enrichment (Iowa) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,988,231 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($628,252). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does St Mark Youth Enrichment have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,988,231 in grants to St Mark Youth Enrichment, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Mark Youth Enrichment?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE is the largest funder on record, with $628,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Mark Youth Enrichment 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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