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Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines

Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,910 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($51,135). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$36k
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$118k
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%

Against its field

Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($40k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2021 Revenue 85 ($34k) Expenses 64 ($26k) Net assets 124 ($41k)2022 Revenue 84 ($34k) Expenses 90 ($37k) Net assets 115 ($38k)2023 Revenue 88 ($36k) Expenses 87 ($36k) Net assets 114 ($38k)2025 Revenue 89 ($36k) Expenses 89 ($37k) Net assets 111 ($37k)
20202021202220232025
Revenue (89)Expenses (89)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

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.

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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$935
20
$8k
21
$3k
22
$200
23
$949
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $6k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)35% 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 Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines’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

Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines.

43%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 63% · 2020 47% · 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 207 organizations that share them.

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 Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

95%

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 Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines: 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 Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines?
Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,910 to it, the largest being BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ($51,135). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $117,910 in grants to Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines?
BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Greater Des Moines 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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