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Cockerill Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$33kEducation$20kHealth$20kAnimals$8kInternational$3kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$500Housing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$363k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Missionary Society of St Columban$4,000
St Judes Childrens Hospital$3,000
St Patrick Catholic Church$3,000
Archdiocese of Omaha$1,500
Nebraska Humane Society$1,000
Open Door Mission$500
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 (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Open Door Mission: $500 → 12%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 10 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$96k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+169%

Still filing today

10%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SJ
    St Judes Childrens Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • SP
    ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $17k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • MS
    Missionar Society of St Columban
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR MISSION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Judes Childrens Hospital: $20,000 · OtherSt Judes Childrens HospitalST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH: $17,300 · OtherST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHumane Society: $6,600 · OtherHumane SocietyIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST COLUMBAN: $4,500 · OtherMissionar Society of St Columban: $4,055 · Other+12 more: $12,254 · Other+12 moreCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT MA…Compassion International Incorporated: $1,936 · InternationalNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150 · Philanthropy
Other$90,709Education$20,000International$1,936Animals$1,000Human Services$500Philanthropy$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #10047: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS #10047 ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Cockerill Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cockerill Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 25 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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