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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2020
68
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 68 grants below total $727,308, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,174,476 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $447,168 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k13 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $648k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$437k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE$20,000
OTHELLO SENIOR CENTER$20,000
HE GRITMAN SENIOR CENTER IN$17,500
LIND LIONS CLUB$15,000
GREATER OTHELLO CHAMBER OF CO$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
RITZVILLE LIONS CLUB$15,000
OTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIV$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
RITZVILLE FOOD PANTRY$15,000
LIND SENIOR CENTER$15,000
WHEAT LAND COMMUNITIES FAIR$15,000
OTHELLO FAIR ADAMS COUNTY FAI$15,000
RITZVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,224
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%OTHELLO RODEO ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%THE COLLECTIVE ADVENTURE: $13k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ashland County Fair Association Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Wythe Arts Council Ltd
Arts & Culture
3
Ogallala Regional Arts Council

To bring performing arts to the ogallala community.

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4
Orland Historical and Cultural Society

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…

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5
Old Saginaw City Inc

Community improvement - west side saginaw

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6
West Plains Council On the Arts Inc

Development of art awareness

Arts & Culture
7
Old Town Collaborative

Supporting businesses in Old Town Mankato

Arts & Culture
8
Colony of Olivenhain Town Council

Preserve historic property (cont sch o)

Arts & Culture
9
Othello Fair Association

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.

Unclassified
10
Oconto Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

Beautification of city and surrounding area. Promotion of businesses and tourism in the area.

Community Improvement
11
International Washboard Festival

Promote appalachian arts in se ohio

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12
West Columbia Beautification Foundation

To support efforts in beautifying the city of west columbia

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Othello Sandhill Crane Festival; 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.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+62 more: $649,808 · Other+62 moreADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE: $20,000 · AnimalsOTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIVAL: $15,000 · AnimalsCOLLECTIVE ADVENTURE: $12,500 · Human ServicesOthello Rodeo Assocation: $10,000 · Human ServicesOTHELLO BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE OLD HOTEL: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$649,808Animals$35,000Human Services$22,500Community Improvement$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWheat Land Communities' Fair Association: $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetOTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetOTHELLO BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetOthello Rodeo Assocation: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Wheat Land Communities' Fair Association ↗
  • Who funds RITZVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds OTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds COLLECTIVE ADVENTURE ↗
  • Who funds OTHELLO BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds THE OLD HOTEL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adams County Development Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams County Development Council. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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