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Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc

The mission of the organization is to preserve and tell the story of american agriculture and its global significance through partnerships and activities that celebrate the land, people, and the communities of the area.

$18k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,653
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,653
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$732k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$6k0%
FY20222$19k50%
FY20211$7k0%
FY20204$80kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$26kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Seed Savers Exchange Inc$22,18830%
Living History Farms Foundation$10,79220%
Motor Mill Foundation of Clayton County$9,473161%
Johnson County Historical Society$5,75014%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc

How much does Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc give?
Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,653, out of $18,055 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Food & Nutrition (20%).
Who are Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Seed Savers Exchange Inc ($22k), Living History Farms Foundation ($11k), Motor Mill Foundation of Clayton County ($9k).
Does Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc based?
Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Inc is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $60k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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