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Jefferson National Parks Association

JEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

$607k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$607,171
Largest grant, FY2025
$607,171
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Jefferson National Parks Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthMembership BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$607k0%
FY202410$879k80%
FY20239$378k89%
FY202220$519k95%
FY20211$167k0%
FY20201$443k0%
FY20191$472k0%
FY20181$466k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$3.7MArts & Culture$435kEducation$82kPublic Benefit$51kCommunity Improvement$35kHealth$25kReligion$25kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
CO
MO
AR
DC
LA
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Mall and Memorial Parks$3,694,3819n/a
Louisiana Preservation Alliance$46,01528%
Austin Creative Alliance$25,00012%
The Cairo Historical Preservation Project Inc$25,000122%
The Southway Foundation$25,000115%
Louisiana Museum of African American History$25,0001n/a
Shape Up Mississippi$25,000130%
Guardians Institute$25,0001n/a
Hark$25,0001n/a
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc$25,00012%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Jefferson National Parks Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Mall and Memorial Parks$3,694,3819n/a
Louisiana Preservation Alliance$46,01528%
Austin Creative Alliance$25,00012%
The Cairo Historical Preservation Project Inc$25,000122%
The Southway Foundation$25,000115%
Louisiana Museum of African American History$25,0001n/a
Shape Up Mississippi$25,000130%
Guardians Institute$25,0001n/a
Hark$25,0001n/a
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc$25,00012%
Historic Natchez Foundation$24,99814%
Vicksburg Tabernacle No 19 Grand Order of Brothers$24,9001n/a
Meadow Creek Inc$24,8871n/a
Mississippi Heritage Trust$24,50014%
McComb City Railroad Depot Museum$24,400141%
Colorado State University$24,1371n/a
French Colonial America$22,50017%
Friends of the Ste Genevieve Museum$21,30018%
Illinois Archaeological Survey Incorporated University of Illinoi$21,1051n/a
Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans Nonprofit Corporation$21,01514%
Alex Foundation$21,000132%
Klipsch Heritage Museum Association Inc$17,775111%
Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition$10,85712%
Eddie Mae Herron Center$9,3551n/a
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival$7,00012%
Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice$6,1751n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jefferson National Parks Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLouisiana Preservation Alliance: $46,015 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetAustin Creative Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Cairo Historical Preservation Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetThe Southway Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetShape Up Mississippi: $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetThe Oxford American Literary Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHistoric Natchez Foundation: $24,998 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMississippi Heritage Trust: $24,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMcComb City Railroad Depot Museum: $24,400 over 1y, 41% of budgetFrench Colonial America: $22,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFriends of the Ste Genevieve Museum: $21,300 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMusic and Culture Coalition of New Orleans Nonprofit Corporation: $21,015 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAlex Foundation: $21,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetKlipsch Heritage Museum Association Inc: $17,775 over 1y, 11% of budgetLooking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition: $10,857 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival: $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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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.

Louisiana Endowment for the HumanitiesLA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Jefferson National Parks Association

How much does Jefferson National Parks Association give?
Jefferson National Parks Association reported 1 grants totaling $607,171 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jefferson National Parks Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (84%), Arts & Culture (10%), Education (2%).
Who are Jefferson National Parks Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Mall and Memorial Parks ($3.7M), Louisiana Preservation Alliance ($46k), Austin Creative Alliance ($25k).
Does Jefferson National Parks Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson National Parks Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Mississippi Humanities Council Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Jefferson National Parks Association based?
Jefferson National Parks Association is based in MO.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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