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Cozad Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$15kRecreation & Sports$8kInternational$8kAnimals$7kCommunity Improvement$6kEducation$5kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPUR LOCAL$4,000
DISTRICT CHURCH$4,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$4,000
CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$3,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FEED THE CHILDREN: $500 → 16%DISTRICT CHURCH: $4k → 14%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 19%SPUR LOCAL: $4k → 14%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 19%SPUR LOCAL: $2k → 14%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 19%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%COURAGE CONNECTION: $1k → 19%EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $1k → 19%EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $1k → 19%COURAGE CONNECTION: $1k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 19%PASTOR TO PASTOR INITIATIVES: $1k → 19%PASTOR TO PASTOR INITIATIVES: $1k → 19%CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2k → 19%RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1k → 19%RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1k → 19%RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 19%CARLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%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.
$42k · 8 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$42k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +87%
  • SL
    SPUR LOCAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • CC
    COURAGE CONNECTION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +70%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    The Carle Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +25%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
6
Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion
7
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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8
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Counselors of Real Estate

Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. the purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with…

Community Improvement
11
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The corporation's mission is to educate, advance, and inform public discourse about the nonprofit sector and to provide news, insight, and professional development services to professionals involved in nonprofit and philanthropic…

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us; the most unlike its peers is University of Illinois Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIES: $7,000 · OtherRESTORATION URBAN MINISTRIESTHE DISTRICT CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherTHE DISTRICT CHURCHPASTOR TO PASTOR INITIATIVES: $2,000 · OtherPASTOR TO PASTOR INITIATIVESEAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $2,000 · OtherEAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR …YOUNG LIFE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY: $1,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE CHAMPAIGN COUNTYFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST…YOUNG LIFE: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $8,000 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY INTER…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $500 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN…CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 · AnimalsCHAMPAIGN COUN…SPUR LOCAL INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropySPUR LOCAL I…CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationCHAMPAIGN …University of Illinois Foundation: $2,000 · EducationUniversity…COURAGE CONNECTION: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Carle Foundation: $1,000 · Health
Other$16,000Youth Development$10,000International$8,500Animals$7,000Philanthropy$6,000Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Health$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE CONNECTION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carle Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cozad Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cozad Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cozad Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cozad Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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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