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Jkf Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$144k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$33,658
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$938k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Jkf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$144k14%
FY202310$79k40%
FY202213$50k8%
FY202111$55k27%
FY20209$53k56%
FY20198$58kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$220kHousing & Shelter$42kHealth$32kRecreation & Sports$30kReligion$13kYouth Development$9kAnimals$8kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Jkf Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nueva Generacion$88,258644%
Winona State University Foundation$65,00021%
Our Kids Dba Open Heartland$44,000513%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$22,00050%
Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc$21,00050%
Greater Cedar Rapids Open Inc$15,00025%
Regina Foundation$12,00030%
Breakthrough T1d$10,00010%
Critter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc$8,00031%
State University of Iowa Foundation$5,00010%
Norway Baseball Association Inc$3,0001n/a
Special Olympics Iowa Inc$2,75020%
Prospect Meadows Inc$2,00010%
Humane Borders Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jkf Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNueva Generacion: $88,258 over 6y, 44% of budgetWinona State University Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOur Kids Dba Open Heartland: $44,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWillis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Cedar Rapids Open Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetRegina Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCritter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Iowa Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProspect Meadows Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

GreenState Credit UnionIA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GreenState Credit Union · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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About Jkf Foundation

How much does Jkf Foundation give?
Jkf Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $144,158 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Jkf Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Health (7%).
Who are Jkf Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Nueva Generacion ($88k), Winona State University Foundation ($65k), Our Kids Dba Open Heartland ($44k).
Does Jkf Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jkf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jkf Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GreenState Credit Union, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Jkf Foundation based?
Jkf Foundation is based in IA.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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