· Private foundation
Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEEPING WATER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $17,278 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN | $14,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 247 | $14,000 |
| REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION OF WEEPING | $10,500 |
| DAYSPRING ACADEMY | $6,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| PLATTSMOUTH JUNIOR YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| YORK UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| PERU STATE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE UNIVERITY | $3,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- MUMIDLAND UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +22%
- BSBESS STREETER ALDRICH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +157%
- YUYORK UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BTBe the Light Speak Up Speak Outone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -50% · 47% of their budget
- MVMANLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $15k
- WWWeeping Water Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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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.
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To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University and 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.
15 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. 15 of the 62 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 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 The Nebraska Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
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: 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
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 Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 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.