THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2023 43% · 2024 17% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $80k → $6k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $270k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ralph a Perry Scholarship Tr). These are real filings, and they are not money THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION.

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 91% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

84% of THE GREATER JEFFERSON COUNTY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $90k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Iowa funders.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.