Iowa · Nonprofit
VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC
VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,838 to it, the largest being DUBUQUE RACING ASSOCIATION LTD ($30,138). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Veterans Freedom Center Inc does
Mission
Provide welfare and assistance to us military veterans
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Give a lift to a vet. This program provides five days per week transportation of our areas military veterans to medical appointments at the vamc in iowa city. This is a no cost to the veteran and provides comfortable van transportation five days a week. All involved in this program including the drivers are completely volunteer and are not paid in any manner. The funds donated are used to provcure new vans when the time arises for replacement. Our veterans freedom center offers veterans a place to network together while providing the camaraderie all shared while serving our great nation. A wood shop, craft area, and leisure activities, such as shuffleboard, pool, darts, tv, music and computer usage is available. Operation we care supports veterans and their families that have special needs whereby all other means of assistance have been exhausted. We provide financial support for rent, mortgage, medications, food, clothing, and utilities for those in need.
$403,712 spent$441,170 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $403,712.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $808k to $1.1M (+40%).
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: 2019 38% · 2020 95% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% 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
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
Allan Rowell
President board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $22k.
From the IRS filings of VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC’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
VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 89% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
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.
Against its field
VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC: 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 VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC?
- VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,838 to it, the largest being DUBUQUE RACING ASSOCIATION LTD ($30,138). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $48,838 in grants to VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC?
- DUBUQUE RACING ASSOCIATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $30,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS FREEDOM CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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