· Private foundation
Howard Jackson Trust Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $23,500 |
| GODS WAY CHRSTIAN CENTER | $17,500 |
| KEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KEOKUK XII | $15,000 |
| KEOKUK SADDLE CLUB | $10,000 |
| KEOKUK ASSOC FOR RIGHTS EQUALITY | $10,000 |
| RAND PARK PAVILION COMMISSION | $6,000 |
| STANDING BEAR COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| KEOKUK ART CENTER | $4,500 |
| KEOKUK CONCERT ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| KEOKUK AREA CONVENTION TOURISM | $1,578 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -36% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $166k
- KPKEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue -36%
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2023 · $72k
Funded once
- KPKPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALLone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -89%
- KCKEOKUK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- KCKOEKUK COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Bring back historical events
Promote local school system
Keota is located in Keokuk County, Iowa, which has been declared an economically disadvantaged area of the state. Keota is a small farming community of approximately 1,000 people located in Southeastern Iowa, approximately 1 hour from any…
To promote tourism activities in the local area
Helping the homeless
To provide childcare in the keokuk iowa area
Preservation of historical building which is part of the rich heritage of catholic roots in this part of keokuk county, iowa
Historical society to promote education about kossuth county, iowa history.
Preserving waynoka railroad depot
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK XII ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET KEOKUK INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust · Keokuk Area Community Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Lee County Youth Services Inc · Keokuk XII · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard Jackson Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Jackson Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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