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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$220kHousing & Shelter$42kHealth$32kRecreation & Sports$30kReligion$13kYouth Development$9kAnimals$8kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$938k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUEVA GENERACION$33,658
MT MERCY UNIVERSITY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS OPEN$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$7,000
WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES$5,000
REGINA FOUNDATION$5,000
SHELTER HOUSE IOWA CITY$5,000
NORWAY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$3,000
CRITTER CRUSADERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS$3,000
WATKINS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$2,000
PACC911 CHUCK WAGGIN$500
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 9%HUMANE BORDERS: $1k → 15%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.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$415k · 15 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$415k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+35%

Still filing today

53%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • NG
    NUEVA GENERACION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue -39% · 44% of their budget
  • WS
    WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +13%
  • MM
    MT MERCY UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $50k

Funded once

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -30%
  • PM
    PROSPECT MEADOWS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -13%

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.

1
Brett Greenwood Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to provide scholarships to support student athletes at the University of Iowa who are "walk on" athletes. The Mission of the Foundation is also to provide funds to the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics…

Philanthropy
2
Iowa West Foundation
3
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc

The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.

Health
6
Iowa Rugby Collective Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
12
Iowa Donor Network

Working together to transform lives through the gift of organ and tissue donation.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nueva Generacion. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NUEVA GENERACION — $88,258 · OtherNUEVA GENERACIONMT MERCY UNIVERSITY — $49,875 · OtherMT MERCY UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $44,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $38,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHELTER HOUSE IOWA CITY — $21,250 · OtherSHELTER HOUSE IOWA CITYWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $21,000 · OtherWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INCPIMA MNTHLY MTG RELIGIOUS SOCIETY FRNDS — $12,000 · Other+6 more — $22,000 · Other+6 moreWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationWINONA STATE UNIVERSI…REGINA FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationREGINA FOUNDATIONSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF I…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $22,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $10,000 · HealthGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS OPEN INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCritter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc — $8,000 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC — $2,750 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT MEADOWS INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHUMANE BORDERS INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$296,383Education$82,000Health$32,000Philanthropy$15,000Animals$8,000Recreation & Sports$4,750Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNUEVA GENERACION — $88,258 over 6y, 44% of budgetWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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
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 NUEVA GENERACION
  • Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC
  • Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS OPEN INC
  • Who funds REGINA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds Critter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA INC
  • Who funds PROSPECT MEADOWS INC
  • Who funds HUMANE BORDERS INC

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.

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

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 Jkf Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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

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