· Community foundation
The Greater Jefferson County Foundation
THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION receives, accepts and distributes funds for educational, cultural, civic and charitable purposes for the benefit of the greater community of jefferson county, iowa.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $428,334 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $624,360 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $196,026 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF | $100,000 |
| GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FAIR | $62,913 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC | $50,000 |
| CARNEGIE HISTORICAL MUSEUM FNDN | $26,520 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY EMS | $21,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COLAB | $20,000 |
| FAIRFIELD ARTS & CONVENTION CENTER | $20,000 |
| FAIRFIELD PRODUCTIONS | $19,925 |
| FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER | $19,500 |
| CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA | $19,359 |
| FAIRFIELD COMM CONCERT ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,900 |
| MAASDAM BARN PRESERVATION COMMITTEE | $10,622 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $7,500 |
| BATAVIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $7,145 |
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 (FY18–25, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- CMCARNEGIE MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY5× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +76% · 28% of their budget
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +64%
- FEFAIRFIELD EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION3× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- LCLibertyville Childcareone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue 0%
- FEFAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +356%
- SAST AMBROSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +83%
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.
Sustainable Living Coalition partners with individuals and organizations to educate and implement innovative ideas in sustainable agriculture and local food systems, green building and community designs, renewable energy, transportation…
Fairfield forward is an alliance of community members, leaders and agencies that utilize collaboration and partnership to foster a culture of wellness within the community that we love.
The fairfield center helps people listen, plan, and interact effectively. the center offers expertise in conflict resolution, restorative justice, and civic engagement activities and training.
To provide a balanced and nutritious emergency food supply to those with special needs in a loving, caring, and supportive manner.
Management, maintenance and preservation of historic cemetery.
The mission of the organization is to provide affordable daycare to young parents of the communities in the surrounding area.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
Food bank
Provide pre and after school daycare services as well as adult services
The mission of the company is the protection of lives, property and environment in the borough of fairfield, designated areas of carroll valley and hamiltonban, liberty, freedom, highland and franklin
To provide a livable facility to house assisted living residents. to provide affordable housing for seniors on a fixed income to age in place. to provide meals for residents and visitors of residents. to provide activities and social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathfinders Rc&D and the most unlike its peers is Fairfield Colab Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 55 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 CARNEGIE MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield Arts & Convention Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY IOWA ↗
- Who funds Libertyville Childcare ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF JEFFERSON & NEARBY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Community Childcare Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds CALU INC ↗
- Who funds BATAVIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFIELD PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S CUPBOARD OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COLAB INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN MAGNOLIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER & WOMEN'S SHELTER 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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Cambridge Foundation Inc · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Greater Jefferson County Foundation 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.