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Jensen Private Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IHC STEAD FAMILY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,986,642 |
| MUSCATINE ART CENTER SUPPORT FOUND | $25,000 |
| IHC STEAD FAMILY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUS | $13,000 |
| GMG SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MUSCATINE COMMUNITY YMCA | $5,000 |
| MUSCATINE CHARTIES INC | $4,645 |
| MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION | $2,500 |
| FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSCATINE ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS MUSCATINE | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC MUSCATINE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFRIENDS OF MUSCATINE ART CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $47k
- GSGMG SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $45k
- ZLZION LUTHERAN CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $45k
Funded once
- MCMUSCATINE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $1k
- DCDIVERSITY CENTER OF IOWAone grant, 2020 · $1k
- COCITY OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing scholarships to students attending muscatine community college.
To deter and reduce crime, especially juvenile delinquency and gang activity, through organized neighborhoods by improving community living conditions and strengthening families.
Improve the apperance of the city of muscatine
Provide housing opportunities for persons with disabilities
Community recreation center
Care of cats and dogs
Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the muscatine community to advance the common good.
Dedicated to developing students who desire to love god and others, and are academically prepared for gods unique plan for their lives.
Career development events-participation by members in a broad range of events related to agriculture.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and education purposes, all within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code (or its successor statute) and applicable…
To develop, coordinate, and proivde housing, social services, and educational programs for low income and moderate income residents of muncie, indiana.
To provide services to qualifying senior citizens of muskingum county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine and the most unlike its peers is Jbr Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MUSCATINE INC ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds JBR FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: HNI Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · The Howe Foundation · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · New Hope Foundation · Holthues Trust · United Way of Muscatine Iowa · Muscatine Charities Inc · Stanley Consultants Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jensen Private Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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