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Because People Matter Inc

Because people matter's primary mission is to provide support to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged on a local, national, and international basis.

$898k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$435k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $628,230, the rows itemized in this filing. The $898,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $270,266 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $435k
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARIOTS 4 HOPE$434,830
GLOBAL ASSIST$50,000
NORTHWEST MO UNITED LABOR$40,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
VISIONARY YOUTH$20,000
FOSTER CARE CLOSET$13,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
COMPASS$10,000
ABIDE NETWORK INC$10,000
LINCOLN LANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$5,400
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISIONARY YOUTH: $20k → 13%FOSTER CARE CLOSET: $13k → 13%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 field

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.

1
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
2
Care Uganda

To transform uganda for christ through the care, education and discipleship of its youth.

Religion
3
Nebraska Christian Schools Inc

To assist the family & church by providing a christ-centered education, equipping students with a biblical worldview and encouraging a love relationship with the lord jesus christ.

Education
4
Hope Childrens Fund Ltd

To provide children living in kenya with various needs

Human Services
5
Covenant Children's Home Inc

Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.

Human Services
6
Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina

We provide children with quality legal advocacy focusing on domestic violence issues, high conflict custody cases and the rights of children in public education. our vision is to increase children's potential to become emotionally healthy…

Crime & Legal
7
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
8
Nebraska Family Support Network

To provide support and advocacy to families of children. build confidence in parents by providing the necessary tools for appropriate decisions and actions. informing parents of their rights and to assist in problem resolution.

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9
City Impact

The organization exists to share the transforming hope and love of jesus christ in urban neighborhoods through holistic youth and family programming and community investment.

Community Improvement
10
Hope-Net Ministries Inc

Helping Other People Experience HOPE through meeting felt needs and building healthy relationships.

Human Services
11
Kids Chance of Nebraska Inc

The mission of kids' chance of nebraska is to provide financial support to further the education of children of nebraska workers who have been severely injured, totally disabled or killed as a result of work related injuries or…

Education
12
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chariots for Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is CHARIOTS4HOPE Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC: $434,830 · InternationalCHARIOTS FOR HOPE INCNORTHWEST MISSOURI UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC: $40,000 · OtherNORTHWEST …ABIDE NETWORK INC: $10,000 · OtherABIDE NETW…THE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVAT…GLOBAL ASSIST: $50,000 · ReligionGLOBAL AS…VISIONARY YOUTH: $20,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER CARE CLOSET: $13,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,400 · Arts & Culture
International$434,830Other$60,000Religion$50,000Human Services$43,000Education$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000Arts & Culture$5,400

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 budgetCHARIOTS FOR HOPE INC: $434,830 over 1y, 23% of budgetGLOBAL ASSIST: $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNORTHWEST MISSOURI UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFOSTER CARE CLOSET: $13,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMPASS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABIDE NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,400 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.

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.

Spreetail FoundationLincoln Community Fou…Assurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Spreetail FoundationNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spreetail Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Because People Matter Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Because People Matter Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Because People Matter Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Because People Matter Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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