Iowa · Nonprofit
United Way of North Central Iowa
United Way of North Central Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,542 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,910). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $747k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $941k
What United Way of North Central Iowa does
Mission
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will improve the lives of Iowans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Impact - The process by which community-wide volunteers donate more than 200 hours of volunteer time to distribute the funds of the United Way Community Solutions Fund to the most critical health and human service needs throughout the eight county region. This is done by review of the partner agencies' applications for funding, visits to the agency sites, and thorough reviews of their financial information and budgets. The distribution of the funds is categorized under the following four focus areas: community basics, investing in children and youth, prevention and reduction of substance abuse, and maximizing independence.
$371,693 spent92% of program spendingCommunication & Marketing - Includes the organization's continuous involvement in the community in order to increase stakeholder knowledge of the United Way and its activities, and to keep the organization connected with the activities which they intend to focus on. The process develops collaboration with these entities to improve health and human services in the eight county region, leveraging the effort of those striving for a common goal.
$32,175 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $403,868.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $912k to $1.1M (+20%).
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: 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of United Way of North Central Iowa’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jen Arends
Secretary & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $11k → $41k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $70k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of North Central Iowa). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way of North Central Iowa raised.
From the IRS filings of United Way of North Central Iowa’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
United Way of North Central Iowa has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 United Way of North Central Iowa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 47% · 2019 70% · 2020 44% · 2021 39% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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
63% of United Way of North Central Iowa's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
50% of United Way of North Central Iowa'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 $198k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
United Way of North Central Iowa runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like United Way of North Central Iowa
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 United Way of North Central Iowa: 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 United Way of North Central Iowa?
- United Way of North Central Iowa (Iowa) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,542 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($82,910). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does United Way of North Central Iowa have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $399,542 in grants to United Way of North Central Iowa, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Way of North Central Iowa?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $82,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Way of North Central Iowa 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 28 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