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IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

EIN 42-1436090 DES MOINES, IA

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Revenue 2024
$1,883,599
Expenses 2024
$1,603,158

Program services were 76.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C010
Classification
1000
Street
505 5TH AVE STE 850

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 850). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE A SAFE, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR IOWA

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE, SUPPORT AND ACHIEVE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, PRIMARILY IN IOWA, BOTH DIRECTLY AND THROUGH COORDINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY.

  • WATER PROGRAM- TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE WATER QUALITY OF IOWA'S RIVERS, STREAMS AND LAKES.

    Expenses $270,163 · Grants $24,266 · Revenue $14,048

  • ENERGY PROGRAM- TO PROMOTE POLICY IMPROVEMENTS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, AND CLEAN ENERGY, INCLUDING REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

    Expenses $846,486 · Revenue $5,560

  • THE CLIMATE INITIATIVES PROGRAM (CIP) WORKS TO BUILD HEALTHY AND THRIVING COMMUNITIES BY HELPING IOWANS PREPARE FOR THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS FROM HARMFUL ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION. FROM BUILDING RESILIENCE TO FLOODS, HEAT WAVES, AND OTHER CLIMATE IMPACTS TO REDUCING AIR, LAND, AND WATER POLLUTION, THE CIP ENVISIONS AN IOWA WHERE COMMUNITIES WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE PROBLEMS TO BUILD JUST, VIBRANT, AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $116,303 · Grants $10,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer Hermsen

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Nathan Unsworth

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jonathan Gano

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brian Riley

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Cownie

    IMM. PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • David Courard-Hauri

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Amanda Drish

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Naura Heiman Godar

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin Griggs

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justyn Lewis

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Paulina Mena

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig Miller

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Kevin Techau

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Laura Sarcone

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Kate Compton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sarah Green

    EXEC. DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $96,459
    From this org
    $94,789
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,670
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,883,599
    Expenses
    $1,603,158
    Contributions
    $1,785,338
    Grants paid
    $34,266
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,650,718
    Expenses
    $1,347,336
    Contributions
    $1,489,872
    Grants paid
    $49,058
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,227,315
    Expenses
    $1,468,835
    Contributions
    $1,075,157
    Grants paid
    $68,861

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,341,925
    Expenses
    $1,259,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,400,660
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,490,157
    Expenses
    $1,316,546
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,251,750
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $984,014
    Expenses
    $983,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,029,434
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $870,484
    Expenses
    $840,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $804,157
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,304
    Expenses
    $937,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $718,017
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $811,871
    Expenses
    $846,167
    Assets (EOY)
    $795,460

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • CLEAN ENERGY DISTRICTS OF IOWA

    $57,427

    2022 THIS IS THE REMAINING FUNDS OF THE RE-AMP GRANTS FOR WHICH THE IOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL WAS PREVIOUSLY THE FISCAL AGENT. CLEAN ENERGY DISTRICTS OF IOWA HAS NOW ASSUMED THIS ROLE.

  • 2023 CLEAN UP MIDAM COAL

  • 2023 CLEAN UP MIDAM COAL

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.