· Public charity
Adams County Development Council
To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 68 grants below total $727,308 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,174,476 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $447,168 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k13 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $648k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE | $20,000 |
| OTHELLO SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| HE GRITMAN SENIOR CENTER IN | $17,500 |
| LIND LIONS CLUB | $15,000 |
| LIND SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| OTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIV | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RITZVILLE LIONS CLUB | $15,000 |
| GREATER OTHELLO CHAMBER OF CO | $15,000 |
| RITZVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $15,000 |
| WHEAT LAND COMMUNITIES FAIR | $15,000 |
| OTHELLO FAIR ADAMS COUNTY FAI | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RITZVILLE FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,224 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The ashland county fair promotes area tourism and provides recreation for the area residents. the fair also promotes 4-h programs and allows local farmers, 4-h members, and the general public to complete projects crafting to raising…
To bring performing arts to the ogallala community.
The mission of the Orland Historical & Cultural Society is to promote and preserver the history of the Orland community and encourage cultural activities. It is an organization of volunteers and all its activities and accomplishments are…
Community improvement - west side saginaw
Development of art awareness
Supporting businesses in Old Town Mankato
Preserve historic property (cont sch o)
To promote, develop, exhibit, and improve wholesome values of agriculture, livestock production, business, industry, and the home life of people by conducting a local fair.
Beautification of city and surrounding area. Promotion of businesses and tourism in the area.
Promote appalachian arts in se ohio
To support efforts in beautifying the city of west columbia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Othello Sandhill Crane Festival and the most unlike its peers is Adams County Pet Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adams County Development Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.