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Keppy Charitable Foundation Wilbert J & Carol A

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.

$381k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of Keppy Charitable Foundation Wilbert J & Carol A’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cambridge HS Dist 227$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
GENESEO AG ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND$20,000
HENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU$20,000
COLONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
Inspire CO J Johnson Director$20,000
Abilities Plus$20,000
OSCO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
Atkinson Geneseo Food Pantry$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Children's Therapy Center$10,000
Ryan and Friends IL Pure Bred Council$10,000
ROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMP$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Honor Flight of the Quad Cities: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 32 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+43%

Still filing today

25%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EmploymentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AP
    ABILITIES PLUS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +75%
  • HC
    HENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +28%
  • HC
    HENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +0% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • HF
    Honor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Dammangraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • RF
    ROYAL FAMILY KIDS KAMP
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • GH
    Geneseo High School
    one grant, 2020 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Franklin County Farm Bureau

To promote the development of the most profitable and permanent system of agriculture possible in the county and to promote the educational social and financial welfare of its inhabitants

2
Peoria County Farm Bureau

To be an advocate of agriculture through leadership and education.

Food & Nutrition
3
Union County Farm Bureau

To promote the development of the most profitable and permanent system of agriculture possible in the county and to promote educational social and financial welfare of its inhabitants

4
Williamson County Farm Bureau

To promote the development of the most profitable and permanent system of agriculture possible in the county and the educational, social, and financial welfare of its inhabitants

5
Sangamon County Farm Bureau

Advocating the voice of agriculture through education and grassroots legislation.

6
Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation

To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.

Public Benefit
7
Bureau County Farm Bureau

To provide information and support to improve financial stability and quality of life for our members.

8
Fulton County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.

9
Clinton County Farm Bureau

To educate, represent its members, lead with a clear vision of the future, and assit members to achieve a rewarding lifestyle.

10
Mchenry County Farm Bureau

McHenry County Farm Bureau Serves as a clear and strong advocate in the community for agriculture and the family farmers.

11
Indiana Agribusiness Council Inc

An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.

12
Illinois Pork Producers Association

To improve the quality, production efficiency, and promotion of pork. representation and advocacy in regulatory and policy issues affecting the pork industry.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry County Farm Bureau and the most unlike its peers is Henry County Pork Producers. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OSCO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $239,000 · OtherOSCO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTCambridge HS Dist 227 — $165,000 · OtherCambridge HS Dist 227HENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $140,000 · OtherHENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAUOsco Fire Department Building Fund — $135,000 · OtherOsco Fire Department Building FundHENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS — $134,500 · OtherHENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERSGENESEO AG ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $128,000 · OtherGENESEO AG ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUNDInspire CO J Johnson Director — $128,000 · OtherInspire CO J Johnson DirectorIndividual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP — $82,000 · OtherCOLONA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $80,500 · Other+28 more — $759,875 · Other+28 moreABILITIES PLUS — $241,000 · EmploymentABILITIES …CHRISTIAN CARE — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterFOR THE CHILDREN — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsHonor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$2,221,875Employment$241,000Housing & Shelter$21,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetABILITIES PLUS — $241,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetHENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $140,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetHENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS — $134,500 over 9y, 53% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP — $82,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetROCK ISLAND COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $36,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN CARE — $21,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHonor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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 ABILITIES PLUS
  • Who funds HENRY COUNTY FARM BUREAU
  • Who funds HENRY COUNTY PORK PRODUCERS
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP
  • Who funds ROCK ISLAND COUNTY FARM BUREAU
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE
  • Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN
  • Who funds Honor Flight Of The Quad Cities Inc co Robert Damman
  • Who funds GENESEO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE 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.

Geneseo FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Geneseo Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Keppy Charitable Foundation Wilbert J & Carol A 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Keppy Charitable Foundation Wilbert J & Carol A?

    Find your warmest path to Keppy Charitable Foundation Wilbert J & Carol A through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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