· Private foundation
Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATOIN | $50,000 |
| KEARNEY COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE HOUSG | $50,000 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SAFE CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| WORLD THEATER | $35,000 |
| KEARNEY RESCUE CATS | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| KEARNEY WOMANS CLUB | $20,000 |
| BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PAR | $15,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you 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
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
- 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 INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +148%
- KWKEARNEY WHITEWATER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kearney Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Master Trauma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kearney Community Sustainable Housing ↗
- 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 KEARNEY RESCUE CATS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
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: 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
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 Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust 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.
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