Iowa · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS OF AMERICA ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Partnership for Education Advancement Incshared funders
- The Gerdin Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- The Land Instituteportfolio 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.
0% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $8k.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH 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.
Where its funders are
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Partnership for Education Advancement Incshared fundersNY · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- The Gerdin Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Land Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ieee Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Life Sciences Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Ventures Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacking for Defense Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Laboratory Animal Medicineportfolio 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University of Northern Iowa Foundation · exempt
- Univ of Northern Iowa Properties Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH 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.
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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS OF AMERICA ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH 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 1funders 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