· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NUEVA GENERACION | $33,658 |
| MT MERCY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| OPEN HEARTLAND | $20,000 |
| WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS OPEN | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| REGINA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHELTER HOUSE IOWA CITY | $5,000 |
| WILLIS DADY HOMELESS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NORWAY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| CRITTER CRUSADERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS | $3,000 |
| WATKINS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| PACC911 CHUCK WAGGIN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +13%
- OKOUR KIDS DBA OPEN HEARTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue ×17
- WDWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -30%
- CHCR HALL OF FAME - GREATER CR COMMUNone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NUEVA GENERACION ↗
- Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS DBA OPEN HEARTLAND ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jkf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jkf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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