Iowa · Nonprofit
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,332,831 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,082,990). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $9.8M
What Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc does
Mission
To empower all experiencing homelessness to build futures of self-sufficiency through advocacy, housing, and employment, with the vision of having a community where everyone has housing, stability, and opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter with case management: in 2025 we served 185 individuals with emergency shelter services. This includes 144 individuals and 9 families. 54% of shelter clients exited to housing. We provide shelter and case management for short and longer-term stays for veterans through a grant from the department of veterans affairs. In service-intensive transitional housing, the veteran can stay for up to 2 years. Participants receive intensive case management services and care coordination. Participants in the bridge housing program can stay in shelter up to 6 months. These participants receive care coordination with the va and non-va veteran service providers, with a goal of leaving for housing and increasing income.in 2025 73% of the veterans in this program had positive exits.
$943,850 spentof which $25,811 as grants$44,040 earned by the program36% of program spendingSupportive employment program: in 2025 we continued serving individuals in our employment program by providing direct hourly part-time or full-time employment. We filled up to 8 full-time positions at frontier co-op each day across three shifts and provided transportation to and from frontier. We also offered 8-10 part-time positions in our mattress recycling social enterprise and 5 seasonal part-time positions with the city of cedar rapids to perform litter abatement in public spaces around cedar rapids. Across all of our employment services program in 2025 we employed 63 clients for a total of 14,637 hours worked and $217,669 wages earned.
$627,801 spentof which $10,643 as grants$332,415 earned by the program24% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing: we provide permanent supportive housing units of income-based housing with case management for individuals and households with children. These units are for those qualifying as chronically homeless based by huds definition. On-site case management is provided to build stability and prevent cycling through community support systems. Feeling safe hastens better self-care practices, improved health, and outlook. In 2024 we opened a 14-unit apartment complex to further our permanent supportive housing portfolio. In 2025 we operated a total of 36 units of permanent supportive housing. In 2025 we serviced 57 adults and 6 children in our supportive housing program.
$540,779 spentof which $6,776 as grants$75,889 earned by the program21% of program spendingRapid rehousing and veteran case management: we provide rapid rehousing to clients who are literally homeless. Rapid rehousing is a program that provides case management and small amounts of temporary rental assistance to help people move out of homelessness and into housing with deposit and/or rent money. In 2025 we served 72 individuals through his program. 60% of the households served exited the program to housing. We also housed 17 veterans through our medium-term housing program, transition in place. Transition in place is funded through the department of veteran affairs and allows us to rehouse veterans experiencing literal homelessness and provide up to two years of rent assistance and intensive case management supports. In 2023, we started a housing retention case management program through the va, working upstream to keep veterans in their housing and out of the literal homeless system. In 2025, we served 68 veterans with this program.
$313,920 spentof which $183,280 as grants12% of program spendingStreet outreach: in 2025, we served 185 people who were sleeping unsheltered in linn county. Our street outreach program reaches individuals sleeping in places not meant for human habitation such as in encampments, under bridges, in alleys, or in their vehicles. We are able to connect them with their basic needs such as hygiene products, blankets, pillows, tents and clothing. Our case managers are able to assist clients in this program access vital documents to work towards securing stable housing. In 2022, we expanded our street outreach program to open hector's place day center at our willis dady works employment hub. The day center provides immediate access to shower and laundry facilities for individuals sleeping unsheltered with additional access to immediate case management services and referrals to employment services and job trainings at the employment hub. From april through december 2025, a total of 3,809 showers and laundry services were provided with an average of 35 clients per day.
$192,780 spentof which $14,176 as grants7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,619,130.
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.
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 $5.5M to $7.7M (+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: 2017 9% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% · 2024 44% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Faust Alicia
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $363k → $400k.
9 of 43 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 WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 40% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 38% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% — 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
42% of WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER 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. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC?
- WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC (Iowa) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,332,831 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,082,990). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,332,831 in grants to WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC?
- GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,082,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER 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.
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 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing