· Private foundation
Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| KEARNEY AREA COMMUNTY FOUNDATION | $50,400 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOIN | $50,000 |
| SAFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| KEARNEY COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE HOUSG | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| WORLD THEATER | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| KEARNEY RESCUE CATS | $25,000 |
| KEARNEY WOMANS CLUB | $20,000 |
| BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PAR | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $875k · revenue +70%
- CCCROSSROADS CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $334k · revenue +115%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $326k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
- YHYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -36%
- HMHOT MEALS USAone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -88%
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.
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.
The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.
Local area chamber of commerce
Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.
To provide a variety of events including the county fair and other educational, agricultural, and entertainment events.
Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.
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.
The nka strives to improve the quality of life for all nebraskans by: advocating for better health policies; supporting legislation for better health care; providing information and education to the general public, professional community…
To provide food and other needs for people living in kearney mo
The Kearney Enrichment Council operates programs focusing on youth enrichment, senior adults, downtown revitalization, and emergency support. In KECs Spark Program, over 40 youth, participated in culinary art, technology and engineering…
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kearney Community Sustainable Housing ↗
- Who funds YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ROBERT M MERRYMAN PERFORMING ART CE ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOT MEALS USA ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY RESCUE CATS ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · Arram Family Foundation · Tye Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Myron Scott Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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