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THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being ON HIS PATH ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$294k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$684k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What The Fountain Charitable Foundation does

Program

  1. Improving the lives of at-risk youth and young adults and their families in eastern iowa by providing community support, growth and development, safe environments for individuals to live and learn and positive opportunities for growth and advancement

    $79,833 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($134k) Net assets 100 ($194k)2019 Revenue 123 ($159k) Expenses 134 ($179k) Net assets 101 ($196k)2020 Revenue 232 ($298k) Expenses 55 ($74k) Net assets 225 ($436k)2021 Revenue 229 ($295k) Expenses 70 ($94k) Net assets 328 ($637k)2022 Revenue 76 ($98k) Expenses 86 ($116k) Net assets 320 ($620k)2023 Revenue 76 ($98k) Expenses 93 ($124k) Net assets 306 ($594k)2024 Revenue 114 ($146k) Expenses 140 ($188k) Net assets 285 ($553k)2025 Revenue 228 ($294k) Expenses 122 ($163k) Net assets 352 ($684k)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (122)Net assets (352)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 2019 to 2020, from $530k to $748k (+41%).

$195k
$530k
$748k
$725k
$703k
$672k
$627k
$753k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed37777777
Joined··+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $25k.

Funder
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total
funders
2
2
1
2

From the IRS filings of THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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In Iowa

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being ON HIS PATH ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,000 in grants to THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
ON HIS PATH is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FOUNTAIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 2 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