Iowa · Nonprofit
Two By Two Character Development
Two By Two Character Development (Iowa) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,589 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($900,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Two By Two Character Development runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,185 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,185 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Dubuque Racing Association Ltdshared funderslocal
- Guill Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- Border States Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Two By Two Character Development’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $372k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Two By Two Character Development’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
Two By Two Character Development leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 66% · 2021 61% · 2022 87% · 2023 81% — 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
43% of Two By Two Character Development's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
Two By Two Character Development draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dubuque Racing Association Ltdshared funderslocalIA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · funds 124 organizations near you
- Guill Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Border States Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fc Dallas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sunflower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Health Choice Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bergerson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Corridoni Foundation for Agency and Self-Determinationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mike and Mary Terry Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dallas Social Venture Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Two By Two Character Development
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 Two By Two Character Development: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Two By Two Character Development?
- Two By Two Character Development (Iowa) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,589 to it, the largest being WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE ($900,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Two By Two Character Development have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,247,589 in grants to Two By Two Character Development, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Two By Two Character Development?
- WILLOW SPRINGS CHARITABLE TRUST JENNY B STODDARD TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Two By Two Character Development 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 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing