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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 FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$607k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$607,171
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE$607,171
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE (KEYSMITH FOUNDATION): $25k → 10%ARKANSAS A THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $21k → 14%OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC: $25k → 15%ARKANSAS COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE: $6k → 17%EDDIE MAE HERRON CENTER: $9k → 20%MEADOWCREEK INC: $25k → 20%ALEX FOUNDATION: $21k → 21%KLIPSCH HERITAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $18k → 21%ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH COMMISSIONDELTA RIVERS NATURE CENTER: $12k → 22%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $689k → 14%FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $23k → 10%THE CITY OF SESSER IL: $15k → 20%ILLINOIS STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: $21k → 20%CAIRO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION PROJECT INC: $25k → 23%THE SOUTH WAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%SHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI: $25k → 20%MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $25k → 23%CITY OF NATCHEZ: $25k → 31%VERMILIONVILLE LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM: $15k → 17%HARK: $25k → 22%GUARDIANS INSTITUTE: $25k → 23%DOWNTOWN WEST MONROE REVITALIZATION GROUP: $10k → 24%FRIENDS OF DELTA MUSIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7k → 28%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $607k → 14%SAINTE GENEVIEVE MUSEUM LEARNING CENTER: $21k → 10%MIDLO CENTER FOR NEW ORLEANS STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS: $16k → 23%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $472k → 14%SAINTE GENEVIEVE MUSEUM LEARNING CENTER: $12k → 10%LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $25k → 23%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $466k → 14%TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL: $7k → 23%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $458k → 14%BLACK AMERICANA FEST (MUSIC & CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS): $21k → 23%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $443k → 14%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $197k → 14%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $195k → 14%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $167k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

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Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
2
Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation

Identify, preserve, protect, and interpret Vicksburg's historic built environment.

Arts & Culture
3
Preservation Longview

To restore, preserve and promote historic Longview.

Arts & Culture
4
New Iberia Museum Foundation

To promote and enhance the historical, cultural, artistic, educational, agricultural, mineral and commercial riches and resources of the City of New Iberia and south Louisiana

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society

To provide history of lincoln parish and exhibit arts of the parish to its citizens and visitors to the area.

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Jacksonville Historical District Inc

To promote and preserve the historal buildings in the jacksonville historal district

Arts & Culture
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The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
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Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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Louisiana Area Historical Museum Inc

To conserve and display artifacts of significance historically to the Louisiana, Missouri, area, for study, education, and enjoyment and to preserve the integrity of Louisiana artifacts.

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of African American Heritage Trail Inc

To educate, preserve and mark the historic contributions of African-Americans in Mobile.

Arts & Culture
12
Mound Cemetery Heritage Foundation

Historical preservation and education.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Preservation Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Vicksburg Tabernacle No 19 Grand Order of Brothers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS: $3,694,381 · OtherNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS+21 more: $378,153 · Other+21 moreAUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CAIRO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OXFORD AMERICAN LITERARY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC NATCHEZ FOUNDATION: $24,998 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $24,500 · Arts & CultureMCCOMB CITY RAILROAD DEPOT MUSEUM: $24,400 · Arts & CultureFRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $21,015 · Arts & CultureKLIPSCH HERITAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $17,775 · Arts & CultureLOOKING FOR LINCOLN HERITAGE COALITION: $10,857 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUTHWAY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI: $25,000 · HealthVICKSBURG TABERNACLE NO 19 GRAND ORDER OF BROTHERS: $24,900 · Membership BenefitALEX FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Education
Other$4,072,534Arts & Culture$221,045Community Improvement$25,000Health$25,000Membership Benefit$24,900Education$21,000

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 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
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.

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 f…Mississippi Humanitie…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jefferson National Parks Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson National Parks Association. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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