· Private foundation
Lee County Youth Services Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF SE IOWA | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMM COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ARGYLE COMMUNITY BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| IOWA COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC | $4,000 |
| HOERNER YMCA | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FT MADISON LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| LEE COUNTY SHOP WITH A COP | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) 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 +12% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SCSOUTHEASTERN COMM COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $30k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA4× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%
- GRGREAT RIVER PLAYERS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue -37%
Funded once
- MFMEXICAN FIESTA COMM OF FT MADISONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FMFORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -5%
- ETELLIOT TEST KITCHEN FDTNone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 support agriculture education and development for youths in lee county, iowa.
The organization promotes, develops and advances the business community in iowa city and the surrounding area. in addition, the organization connects business and industry with federal, state and local resources to enable and stimulate…
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
Facilitate economic opportunity, business success, community engagement, prosperity, and quality of life for rural western iowa
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 collect and purchase food and basic necessities for distribution to disadvantaged people in the north iowa area. individuals served - 25,399
To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young House Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Donnellson Ball Association. 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 28 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DONNELLSON BALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES 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.
Open a dossier: Keokuk Area Community Foundation · Howard Jackson Trust Foundation · Heartland Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Fort Madison Sirrc Corporation · Grace Bott Millar Charitable Trust · 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 Lee County Youth Services Inc 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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