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# IowaWatch Transparency: Read Our 990 Tax Return Here
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/iowawatch-transparency-read-our-990-tax-return-here/
- Published: 2019-07-31T17:01:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:37:08.000Z
- Author: IowaWatch
- Tags: Investigate Midwest News, iowawatch, charities, funding news, Journalism, nonprofit news, philanthropy, Transparency, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

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You may read here the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism 990 tax return for 2018\. The center runs the [IowaWatch.org](https://investigatemidwest.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org) news website and educational programming for student journalists who produce in-depth reporting with IowaWatch staff journalists.

The non-profit, non-partisan center, founded in February 2010, spent $134,688, while raising $125,312 in 2018, both increases over the previous year, the return shows.

The center received a boost at the end of the year when donors responded to the center’s inclusion in a Knight News Match fund drive. That fund drive resulted in a $24,688 grant disbursed by The Fund for Nonprofit News at The Miami Foundation in 2019\. The grant covered a $22,188 match and $2,500 bonus for exceeding in 2018 News Match fundraising from.

**Read the IowaWatch 990 tax form for 2018 at this link:**

#### [IACenter990 for 2018](https://www.investigatemidwest.org/content/files/2026/09/IACenter990-for-2018.pdf)

###### TO LEARN HOW IOWAWATCH’S NONPROFIT JOURNALISM IS FUNDED AND HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT IT, [GO TO THIS LINK](https://investigatemidwest.org/fundraising/?ref=investigatemidwest.org).

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit program that does investigative and community affairs journalism as a public service in collaboration with other media, and trains college student journalists to do this work at a high level. It is a member of the [Institute for Nonprofit News](http://inn.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org). Find out more at [IowaWatch.org](https://investigatemidwest.org/?ref=investigatemidwest.org)/.

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Group photo of graduating staffers after a Friday, May 3, 2019, IowaWatch staff meeting: (left to right) K. Rambo, Lauren Wade, Bailey Ramsey, Taylor Odekirk.