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Keokuk Area Community Foundation

The foundation receives charitable gifts from donors to establish permanent endowments for se iowa, western illinois and northeast missouri.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$877kPublic Safety & Disaster$281kHuman Services$236kRecreation & Sports$157kArts & Culture$133kReligion$114kFood & Nutrition$84kYouth Development$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $869,490, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,202,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $333,102 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $254k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARGYLE COMMUNITY BOOSTERS$12,500
IOWA 2X4S FOR HOPE$12,500
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOERNER YMCA: $33k → 14%YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6k → 15%HOERNER YMCA: $26k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $23k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $22k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $15k → 14%AMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FDTN: $13k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $8k → 14%AMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FDTN: $8k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $5k → 14%FORT MADISON FAMILY YMCA: $24k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL: $13k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL: $11k → 14%FORT MADISON FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL: $6k → 14%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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 35 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
17

Total granted

$1.9M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+8%

Still filing today

54%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $321k · revenue +91% · 88% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $234k · revenue +41%
  • HY
    Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • KP
    KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -88% · 32% of their budget
  • FM
    FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +70%
  • KC
    KEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

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
Keokuk County Fair

To provide a county fair for rural iowa

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2
Keokuk Economic Development Corporation

Economic development for keokuk, ia and surrounding community.

Community Improvement
3
Keokuk Area Convention Center & Tourism Bureau Fdn

To promote tourism activities in the local area

Arts & Culture
4
Kids Korner Childcare Foundation

Provide affordable child care to laurens, iowa community

Human Services
5
Keokuk Community Child Development Center Inc

To provide childcare in the keokuk iowa area

Human Services
6
Lee County Fair

To support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.

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7
Kiowa County Economic Development

To promote economic development in kiowa county, colorado.

Community Improvement
8
Keokuk Xii
Philanthropy
9
Greater Keokuk Area Habitat for Humanity

Help low income to own home

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10
Ida Grove Community Foundation Inc

Programs for Ida Grove, Iowa and surrrounding area.

Community Improvement
11
Lena Community Trust Fund Inc

Offer facility to community for events

Human Services
12
Webster County Agricultural Associa

To provide a 4-h county fair.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Test Kitchen Education Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 61 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEE COUNTY: $257,500 · OtherLEE COUNTYKEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $183,742 · OtherKEOKUK CATHOLIC SCHOOLSLEE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $61,554 · OtherCHURCH OF ALL SAINTS: $58,593 · OtherGRAND THEATRE CORPORATE FOUNDATION: $51,750 · OtherHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $51,513 · OtherHOLY FAMILY PARISH: $51,235 · Other+39 more: $546,719 · Other+39 moreHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $321,000 · PhilanthropyHOLY TRINITY CATHOL…THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO: $42,399 · PhilanthropyTHREE RIVERS CONSER…MAIN STREET KEOKUK INC: $14,250 · Philanthropy+1 more: $9,784 · PhilanthropySOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $234,238 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN …TEST KITCHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,600 · EducationTEST KITCHEN …Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $131,593 · Human ServicesHoerner You…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FORT MADISON: $32,927 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $29,217 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY S…AMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FOUNDATION INC: $20,200 · Human ServicesAMERICAS FI…+1 more: $6,119 · Human ServicesKPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL: $32,642 · Recreation & SportsKEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION: $13,094 · Arts & CultureLAKE COOPER FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $15,700 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,262,606Philanthropy$387,433Education$259,838Human Services$220,056Recreation & Sports$32,642Arts & Culture$25,594Food & Nutrition$15,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $321,000 over 6y, 88% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $234,238 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $131,593 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetGRAND THEATRE CORPORATE FOUNDATION: $51,750 over 7y, 70% of budgetTHREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO: $42,399 over 3y, 29% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FORT MADISON: $32,927 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL: $32,642 over 1y, 32% of budgetCENTRAL LEE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST FOUN: $30,500 over 2y, 40% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $29,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $29,217 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTEST KITCHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,600 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREAT RIVER REGION: $20,358 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAS FIRST GREAT DAM FOUNDATION INC: $20,200 over 2y, 17% of budgetKEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $15,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $15,223 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET KEOKUK INC: $14,250 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND: $14,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA CORNELIS HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $14,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetYOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKEOKUK UNION DEPOT FOUNDATION: $13,094 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLAKE COOPER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetFORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION: $11,019 over 1y, 17% of budgetALCOHOL & DRUG DEPENDENCY SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST IOWA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEE COUNTY FAIR INC: $7,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetKEOKUK HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC: $6,834 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $6,119 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN 304: $5,965 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Lee County Youth Serv…Alliant Energy Founda…Quad Cities Community…Fort Madison Sirrc Co…Howard Jackson Trust …Grace Bott Millar Cha…Heartland Charitable …United Way of the Gre…Keokuk XIIEdward Jones Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Lee County Youth Services IncIA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Keokuk Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keokuk Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 61 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 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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