Iowa · Nonprofit
The Des Moines Urban Experience
The Des Moines Urban Experience (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,075 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($90,475). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $189k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $-87019
What The Des Moines Urban Experience does
Mission
Provide education in African American culture and history, collaborating with like-minded organizations to cultivate awareness and appreciation of our contributions and to build a stronger, more connected community by providing platforms that celebrate freedom, liberty, and responsible citizenship. Through activities that address economic, health, social, and political development, we aim to meet the needs of our community while fostering understanding and appreciation for Juneteenth's significance in American history.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The annual Iowa Juneteenth event has celebrations throughout the year. We educate Iowans about Juneteenth history through our largest celebration, Neighbors Day, which takes place on the third Saturday in June at Western Gateway Park.
$155,624 spentof which $172,798 as grants97% of program spendingEmbrace the Race is an inclusive 5K race to celebrate community and individuality. This event takes place in June and encourages community, health, and connection.
$3,420 spentof which $2,500 as grants2% of program spendingThe African American Hall of Fame inducts people in the African American community who are making an impact on the state of Iowa and took place in February.
$1,710 spentof which $1,450 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $359 to $2k (+509%).
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.
100% of The Des Moines Urban Experience’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $22k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 The Des Moines Urban Experience’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
The Des Moines Urban Experience leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 The Des Moines Urban Experience.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 46% · 2023 77% — 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
86% of The Des Moines Urban Experience's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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.
Against its field
The Des Moines Urban Experience has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Des Moines Urban Experience
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
0%
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 The Des Moines Urban Experience: 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 The Des Moines Urban Experience?
- The Des Moines Urban Experience (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,075 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($90,475). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Des Moines Urban Experience have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $146,075 in grants to The Des Moines Urban Experience, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Des Moines Urban Experience?
- BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Des Moines Urban Experience 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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