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The Chase & Conor Piper Memorial

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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$17kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$2kHealth$960Philanthropy$250Arts & Culture$100Community Improvement$67Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,431
Median grant
2
States reached
$73k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEOKUK 12$2,000
HOERNER YMCA$1,462
ELKS LODGE$1,431
TOYS FOR TOTS$310
HYPERTROPIC CARDOMYOPAHTY ASSOCIATI$250
UNITED WAY$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%HOERNER YMCA: $3k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $1k → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $795 → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $705 → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $595 → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $595 → 14%HOERNER YMCA: $462 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 6 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +143% since the first grant, against +122% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$27k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%
+122%

Still filing today

33%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KP
    KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $13k
  • HY
    Hoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue -15%
  • EL
    ELKS LODGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • MA
    MLD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CO
    CAMP ODAYINgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +130%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $800
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $13,138 · OtherKEOKUK PUBLIC LIBRARYELKS LODGE: $2,614 · OtherELKS LODGEKEOKUK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $2,423 · OtherKEOKUK COMMUNITY SCHOOLSKEOKUK 12: $2,000 · OtherKEOKUK 12MLD ACADEMY: $1,500 · OtherMLD ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $1,120 · Other+12 more: $2,865 · Other+12 moreHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $7,730 · Human ServicesHoerner Young Mens Christ…CAMP ODAYIN: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION: $460 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $100 · HealthMAIN STREET KEOKUK INC: $67 · Philanthropy
Other$25,660Human Services$7,730Recreation & Sports$1,000Health$560Philanthropy$67

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHoerner Young Mens Christian Association of Keokuk Iowa Inc: $7,730 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP ODAYIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION: $460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET KEOKUK INC: $67 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 CAMP ODAYIN ↗
  • Who funds HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET KEOKUK 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chase & Conor Piper Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chase & Conor Piper Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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