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Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.6MPhilanthropy$921kReligion$855kCrime & Legal$702kHuman Services$152kRecreation & Sports$50kEducation$39kHousing & Shelter$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
  • $250k+1 grant · $675k
$28,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$675,000
SABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION$150,000
THE HEGELER CARUS FOUNDATION$55,575
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO$36,500
OVERFIELD TAVERN MUSEUM$29,500
CITY OF LOGANSPORT INDIANA$28,250
EDISON BIRTHPLACE ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
NEW ULM TURNVEREIN$20,000
ROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF JANESVILLE$1,000
FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC$1,000
ANTIQUE DOORKNOB COLLECTORS OF AMERICA INC$900
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 10%EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $1k → 10%EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $600 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 26% of Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 15 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
36

Total granted

$3.8M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $983k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    Logan County Landmark Preservation Inc
    2× · 2019–2024 · $650k · revenue +15% · 27% of their budget
  • DC
    Dubuque County Historical Society
    2× · 2019–2021 · $285k · revenue +42%
  • WH
    WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $89k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • OH
    OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
    one grant, 2018 · $435k · revenue +18%
  • LC
    LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (THE HISTORY CENTER)
    one grant, 2018 · $400k
  • GF
    GROUSELAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -50% · 53% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
2
Madison County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
3
Historical Society of Marshall County

To preserve and celebrate the rich history of marshall county, iowa

Arts & Culture
4
Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

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5
Langlade County Historical Society Inc

To preserve, promote, and disseminate the knowledge of the local history of langlade county, wisconsin

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6
Green County Historical Society

To preserve, advance and disseminate knowledge of the history of Green County and the State of Wisconsin.

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7
Jefferson County Historical Society

To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.

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8
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

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9
Des Moines Co Historical Society

To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties

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10
Pottawatomie County Historical Society

Celebrate and honor the historic traditions, innovation and creativity of the people of pottawatomie county through responsible collection, preservation, and exhibition from a publicly accessible museum of historical artifacts.

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11
Albion Historical Society

To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion

Arts & Culture
12
Pipestone County Historical Society

To provide a histroical museum for the pipestone county, minnesota region

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Stinson Memorial Library District. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
27/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $1,895,000 · OtherLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INCFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S (STEEPLE SQUARE) — $821,231 · OtherFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S (STEEPLE SQUARE)Individual grant recipient — $675,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (THE HISTORY CENTER) — $400,000 · OtherLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (THE HISTORY CENTER)+22 more — $395,177 · Other+22 moreLogan County Landmark Preservation Inc — $650,000 · Arts & CultureLogan County Landmark Preservation IncOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $435,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTIONGROUSELAND FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Arts & CultureGROUSELAND FOUNDATION INCELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $325,000 · Arts & CultureELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATIONDubuque County Historical Society — $285,000 · Arts & CultureDubuque County Historical SocietyKEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION — $275,000 · Arts & CultureKEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATIONCARVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCARVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $160,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $310,830 · Arts & Culture+16 moreHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $48,950 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $20,750 · Philanthropy+4 more — $21,750 · PhilanthropyMOLINE FOUNDATION — $330,000 · Community ImprovementHeritage Accord — $24,575 · Community Improvement+1 more — $2,000 · Community ImprovementSABLE POINTS LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,600 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE STINSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY DISTRICT — $33,665 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$4,186,408Arts & Culture$3,090,830Philanthropy$591,450Community Improvement$356,575Human Services$151,600Education$34,665Health$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLogan County Landmark Preservation Inc — $650,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGROUSELAND FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetMOLINE FOUNDATION — $330,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $325,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society — $285,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCARVER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $250,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $160,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $88,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEGELER CARUS FOUNDATION — $55,575 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $51,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $48,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $42,742 over 1y, 17% of budgetRUTHERFORD B HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS — $32,775 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWashington County Historical Society — $32,650 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGALENA-JO DAVIESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $30,285 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHeritage Accord — $24,575 over 1y, 66% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $23,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $20,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ULM TURNVEREIN — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC — $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIBBITS OPERA FOUNDATION AND ARTS COUNCIL — $14,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEASTEND STUDIO & GALLERY — $12,750 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARROW ROCK — $11,550 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $4,230 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetForward Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUPERIOR PUBLIC MUSEUMS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTERLING NORTH SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC COOKSVILLE TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKEWASKUM REMEMBERS 9-11 INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER GREENFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETH PETERSON COTTAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Baird Foundation IncNational Trust for Hi…Alliant Energy Founda…Wisconsin Humanities …Lilly Endowment IncThrivent Charitable I…American Endowment Fo…The US Charitable Gif…The Chicago Community…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…
Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin IncWI17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Humanities Council Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd?

    Find your warmest path to Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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