Iowa Legal Aid Foundation

Analysis

Iowa Legal Aid Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Iowa Legal Aid Foundation reported income of $718k and spending of $767k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $467k to $718k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Iowa Legal Aid Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Health Freedom Defense Fund Inc ($718k), Adf Foundation ($718k) and Urban Leaders Fellowship ($718k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $387k, net assets of $1.2m.