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THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,376 to it, the largest being SEED THE DREAM FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa and a place to create or explore their connection to Judaism in a way that is meaningful for them that lasts far beyond their years at school.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shabbat dinners and Jewish Holidays:Shabbat dinners are the highlight of the week for a lot of our students because they get a variety of meals such as mac'n'cheese, smoked meats, ratatouille, chicken piccata, and many more! The Jewish fraternity on campus hosts a Shabbat dinner at Hillel once a semester where brothers come in to help set up the space and even help out in the kitchen with cooking and serving the meal. Students help with each process of our Shabbat dinners from working with our chef in the kitchen and leading services. Our Shabbat dinners range from 30-80 students on a weekly basis. While most Shabbat dinners are at Hillel, once a semester students have the chance to host Shabbat dinners in their homes, which Hillel staff helps prepare students to do. Iowa Hillel hosts programming, meals, and opportunities for learning around the Jewish holidays during the academic year. Prior to Rosh Hashanah, Hillel students gave out more than 500 apples on the main walkway on campus with informational cards about what the holiday is and how Jewish people celebrate. During Sukkot, staff built a Sukkah with graduate and undergraduate students, which students then decorate. One of…
$31,480 spent10% of program spendingIsrael Education and Jewish Learning - This year we were fortunate to have the University of Iowa put together a festival of contemporary music from Israel. With this happening, we were able to create multiple programmatic opportunities for our students around this series including attending a dinner with Hillel staff, University faculty and staff, and their peers before going to the Holocaust Memorial Concert. Students have the opportunity to connect to Israel through our three different Kol Yisrael 6 week courses at Hillel over dinner, through our speaker series and cooking classes, and by going on Birthright with their Iowa classmates or on Onward. We also launched a Hebrew conversation hour led by one of our Israeli education majors. We have a regular program where we shut down our building once a month to host students at a local Israeli-owned coffee shop where they get to have a snack on Hillel and partake in Israeli trivia. We offer the Jewish Learning Fellowship classes that students can take for 10 weeks, which are run multiple times in the semester. These classes are taught by Hillel staff and students receive a stipend upon completion and a warm meal for each session.…
$37,029 spent12% of program spendingEngagement and Outreach - Engagement and Outreach encompases are work in helping students connect socially and reaching out to Jewish students on campus. Staff and student leaders take students out for one-on-one conversations to get to know one another better and explain what Hillel is. On top of that, our staff is trained to pick up on small things that can help us engage students on a more meaningful level later on as we are able to create opportunities suited for the individual based on information we were able to obtain from our conversations. This academic year, we also launched our Hillel FreshFest programs with move-in open houses for incoming families, bagel brunch, tie-dye, and scavenger hunts, which we credit as part of having such high levels of first year continued engagement during the school year. Another new initiative that was successful was a Jewish Business Association trip to Chicago, where current majors were able to connect with alumni who work in various companies, so that they're able to think about what comes next and start connecting with their future Iowa Hillel alumni community.
$27,116 spent9% of program spendingOther Programs that foster Jewish vitality through the promotion of Jewish values, student empowerment and engagement.
$212,002 spent69% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $307,627.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.9M to $2.0M (−32%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Ashley Holt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $32k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL 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 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 86% · 2023 63% — 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
50% of THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,376 to it, the largest being SEED THE DREAM FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $146,376 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- SEED THE DREAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL 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.
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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 9 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