· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 26 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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Keokuk Benevolent Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keokuk Benevolent Union. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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