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Keokuk Benevolent Union
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIMITED RESOURCES | $17,850 |
| HOERNER YMCA | $13,500 |
| LYDIAS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| IOWA LEGAL AID FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| GODS WAY CHRISTIAN CENTER OUTREACH | $4,000 |
| KEOKUK HOMELESS ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| ACTS 245 | $3,500 |
| KEOKUK SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| MILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $2,000 |
| HOPE CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HYHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +54%
- ILIowa Legal Aid5× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
- KHKEOKUK HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- LELIMITED ERSOURCESone grant, 2020 · $14k
- KCKEOKUK COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2019 · $5k
- UWUNITED WAY-GREAT RIVER REGIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 assist in the provision of a better life for iowa's low-income residents, through assistance to the community action organization located within the state.
To provide low-cost housing to eligible families.
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The mission of aging resources of central iowa is to lead, advocate, and serve; as well as plan and coordinate resources in the provision of services to older persons in central iowa, their families, caregivers, or representatives,…
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Keokuk Homeless Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 26 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 Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK HOMELESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER IOWA ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER PLAYERS 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.
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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 Benevolent Union 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.
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