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Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

MN
IL
WI
MI
IA
IN
OH
MO
AR
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
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.

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

04Its 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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 65 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
26/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetEDISON BIRTHPLACE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.4% 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 budgetGREATER GREENFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEWASKUM REMEMBERS 9-11 INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTERLING NORTH SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC COOKSVILLE TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSETH PETERSON COTTAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffris Family Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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-PF 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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