Iowa · Nonprofit
THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION
THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $46k
What The Humble Heroes Foundation does
Mission
Provide financial and other assistance to surviving children and spouses of us service members who are killed in the line of duty. To raise money to benefit military families and military members and to assist military families in achieving their education goals. To show direct support to military service members through community awareness and interactive morale programs and to support like minded charities and foundations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide financial and other assistance to surviving children and spouses of us service members who are killed in the line of duty. To raise money to benefit military families and military members and to assist military families in achieving their education goals. To show direct support to military service members through community awareness and interactive morale programs and to support like minded charities and foundations.
$65,500 spentof which $65,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $151k to $69k (−54%).
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.
111% of THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Justin Zapitul
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $13k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION’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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 61% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION's revenue fell 60% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION: 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 HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION?
- THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,250 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($50,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,250 in grants to THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HUMBLE HEROES FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HUMBLE HEROES 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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