· Private foundation
Lee County Youth Services Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARGYLE COMMUNITY BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| IOWA COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMM COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF SE IOWA | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL INC | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FT MADISON LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| HOERNER YMCA | $2,500 |
| LEE COUNTY SHOP WITH A COP | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- FMFORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -5%
- MFMEXICAN FIESTA COMM OF FT MADISONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NLNORTH LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 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 THREE RIVERS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds FORT MADISON AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lee County Youth Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee County Youth Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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