· Community foundation
Keokuk Area Community Foundation
The foundation receives charitable gifts from donors to establish permanent endowments for se iowa, western illinois and northeast missouri.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $869,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,202,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $333,102 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEE COUNTY | $250,000 |
| KEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $173,475 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDTN | $67,510 |
| HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $51,513 |
| HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ED FD | $35,424 |
| HOERNER YMCA | $32,819 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FDTN | $17,653 |
| GODS WAY CHRISTIAN CENTER | $16,554 |
| CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS | $16,321 |
| MAIN STREET KEOKUK INC | $14,250 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROG | $13,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREAT RIVER REGIO | $12,858 |
| IOWA 2X4S FOR HOPE | $12,500 |
| ARGYLE COMMUNITY BOOSTERS | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
- HTHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $321k · revenue +91% · 88% of their budget
- SCSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $234k · revenue +41%
- HYHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- KPKPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALLone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -88% · 32% of their budget
- FMFORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +70%
- KCKEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Economic development for keokuk, ia and surrounding community.
To promote tourism activities in the local area
Provide affordable child care to laurens, iowa community
To provide childcare in the keokuk iowa area
To support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.
To promote economic development in kiowa county, colorado.
Help low income to own home
Programs for Ida Grove, Iowa and surrrounding area.
Offer facility to community for events
To provide a 4-h county fair.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Test Kitchen Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Emma Cornelis Hospitality House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 61 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 HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND THEATRE CORPORATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FORT MADISON ↗
- Who funds KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST FOUN ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TEST KITCHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREAT RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET KEOKUK INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds EMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE COOPER 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: Lee County Youth Services Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Fort Madison Sirrc Corporation · Howard Jackson Trust Foundation · Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust · Heartland Charitable Trust · United Way of the Great River Region · Keokuk XII · Edward Jones Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Keokuk Area Community 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.
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.