Iowa

State programs

30

Local offices

3,127

Nonprofits

22

Food sites

0

Services by kind of help

• Education1,025
• Housing894
• Legal help471
• Money329
• Health206
• Food179
• Care166
• Work157
• Safety149
• Other19

• We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
• A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
• Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
• We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

• organizations3,161 rows, 349 in the sample

  id, name, alternate_name, description, website

• services3,595 rows, 360 in the sample

  id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

• locations2,821 rows, 310 in the sample

  id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

• service_at_locations3,219 rows, 319 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id

• phones6,408 rows, 671 in the sample

  id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

• schedules0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

• addresses2,772 rows, 305 in the sample

  id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

• service_areas4,169 rows, 525 in the sample

  id, service_id, name, description

• languages0 rows, 0 in the sample

  id, service_id, name

• taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

  id, name, description, uri, version

• taxonomy_terms33 rows, 33 in the sample

  id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

• attributes26,270 rows, 2,730 in the sample

  id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

• No food pantries or meal sites for Iowa yet.
• Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
• Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
• The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Iowa, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/iowa

@misc{frontdoor_hsds_ia_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Iowa, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
  year = {2026},
  note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/iowa}
}

Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.