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Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation

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.

$103k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $103k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
1
’18
3
’19
1
’20
5
’21
1
’22
1
’23
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’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Recreation & Sports$250kEnvironment$9kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$2kEducation$1kCommunity Improvement$1kFood & Nutrition$300Other$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$76k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA$500
RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR$300
QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $1k → 10%NAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA: $1k → 12%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $1k → 15%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%MONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRIANS: $1k → 18%QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3k → 7%RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $300 → 12%QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $500 → 12%QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2k → 12%QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $100 → 12%TWO RIVERS YMCA: $1k → 15%CORAM DEO BIBLE CHURCH: $200 → 12%GENESIS FOUNDATION: $525 → 12%GENESIS HEALTH SYSTEMS: $100 → 12%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.
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 grantees
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.

1
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
2
Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment
3
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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5
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
6
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
7
Geneva College

Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.

Education
8
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
9
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services Inc

Our mission: to lead our communities to well-being, one person at a time. this mission is carried out by serving the people of a multi-county service area in reference to their current and future needs for health care services. our major…

Health
10
Mill Creek Alliance

Improves mill creek & its watershed through stream restoration, greenway construction,environmental education, public recreation & water quality monitoring. has obtained millions in state & federal grants to support this

Environment
11
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
12
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nahant Marsh Education Center; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $1,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWA: $1,000 · OtherMAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $1,000 · OtherTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $1,000 · OtherGENESIS FOUNDATION: $525 · OtherTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $500 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,100 · Arts & CultureMONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI: $1,000 · HealthGENESIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $100 · HealthHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $1,000 · EnvironmentRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $300 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$250,000Other$11,225Arts & Culture$2,100Health$1,100Education$1,000Environment$1,000Food & Nutrition$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAQUOKETA BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA NON-TRADITIONAL EQUESTRI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAHANT MARSH EDUCATION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY HOUSE OF DAVENPORT IOWA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $100 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.

Quad Cities Golf Clas…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Hubbell-Waterman FndnScott County Regional…Quad Cities Community…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable FoundationIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Modern Woodmen of America · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Scott County Regional Authority · Quad Cities Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jimelissa Von Maur Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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.

    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 15 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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