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YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION

YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,286 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($947,786). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.6M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$953k
Net assets
$11M
1/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Youth Homes of Mid America Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the foundation is to manage and accept contributions from the public and to use such funds and income to assist and benefit ellipis inc. A non-profit organization. It is operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To assist and benefit ellipsis.

    $2,645,350 spentof which $2,645,350 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,645,350.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($944k) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2018 Revenue 56 ($843k) Expenses 79 ($748k) Net assets 94 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 52 ($782k) Expenses 72 ($681k) Net assets 108 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 29 ($438k) Expenses 91 ($856k) Net assets 109 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 44 ($654k) Expenses 16 ($146k) Net assets 124 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 214 ($3.2M) Expenses 30 ($284k) Net assets 152 ($7.1M)2023 Revenue 17 ($252k) Expenses 28 ($267k) Net assets 166 ($7.7M)2024 Revenue 67 ($1.0M) Expenses 18 ($167k) Net assets 191 ($8.9M)2025 Revenue 240 ($3.6M) Expenses 324 ($3.1M) Net assets 237 ($11M)
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Revenue (240)Expenses (324)Net assets (237)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9.4M to $12M (+23%).

$4.9M
$4.6M
$5.5M
$5.2M
$5.8M
$7.4M
$8.2M
$9.4M
$12M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$558k
’17
$95k
’18
$100k
’19
−$419k
’20
$508k
’21
$2.9M
’22
−$15k
’23
$841k
’24
$549k
’25
6.8
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed171718163422212122
Joined·+1+2+1+18+0+7+0+1
No longer listed·113012800
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $29k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ellipsis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA 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.

How concentrated its funding is

YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $948k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 1%Fundraising 12%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ellipsis Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION?
YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,286 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($947,786). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $953,286 in grants to YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $947,786 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH HOMES OF MID AMERICA 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 3 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