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Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$467kHealth$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kArts & Culture$24kCommunity Improvement$19kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$15kMembership Benefit$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEEPING WATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$17,278
AMERICAN LEGION POST 247$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN$14,000
REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION OF WEEPING$10,500
DAYSPRING ACADEMY$6,800
BESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
PLATTSMOUTH JUNIOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION$5,000
YORK UNIVERSITY$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$3,000
SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE$3,000
PERU STATE COLLEGE$3,000
MORNINGSIDE UNIVERITY$3,000
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 (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRIENDS OF CASS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $2k → 6%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$554k · 30 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
26

Total granted

$554k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+18%

Still filing today

23%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MU
    MIDLAND UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +22%
  • BS
    BESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +157%
  • YU
    YORK UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BT
    Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -50% · 47% of their budget
  • MV
    MANLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • WW
    Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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

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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
4
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Southwest Baptist University

Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society; a higher-education institution offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
7
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
St Ambrose University

Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…

Education
10
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
11
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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12
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University; the most unlike its peers is Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 62 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEEPING WATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $166,518 · OtherWEEPING WATER PUBLIC SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $78,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLNBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $52,794 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAPERU STATE COLLEGE: $35,250 · OtherPERU STATE COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · Other+44 more: $234,607 · Other+44 moreBe the Light Speak Up Speak Out: $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4,730 · HealthThe Nebraska Medical Center: $3,000 · HealthMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · EducationYORK UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · EducationRevitalization Association of Weeping Water: $18,500 · Community ImprovementWeeping Water Volunteer Fire Department: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF CASS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $2,250 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $2,200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$591,169Health$57,730Education$43,000Community Improvement$18,500Public Safety & Disaster$15,000Human Services$2,250Recreation & Sports$2,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBe the Light Speak Up Speak Out: $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetRevitalization Association of Weeping Water: $18,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOFTE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM: $2,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out ↗
  • Who funds Revitalization Association of Weeping Water ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds BESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE LOFTE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center ↗

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.

Educationquest Foundation IncNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Educationquest Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · James M Cox Foundation · Midlands Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 62 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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