· Public charity
Gage County Foundation Inc
The foundation exists for the purpose of raising and providing funds to gage county, ne organizations engaged in providing the educational, cultural, recreational, historical, health and all meaningful needs of the citizens of gage county ne.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $472,106 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $607,628 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,522 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEEPGATE WOMEN CENTER | $55,471 |
| 4-H BUILDING INC | $34,769 |
| WYMORE-BLUE SPRINGS AREA FUND | $28,759 |
| ODELL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,323 |
| BEATRICE SERTOMA CLUB | $21,870 |
| GREAT PLAINS WELSH HERTIAGE PROJECT | $20,297 |
| GAGE COUNTY AG SOCIETY | $19,896 |
| FOOD 4HOPE OF NEBRASKA INC | $18,362 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $17,091 |
| BEATRICE COMMUNITY HOSPTIAL FDN | $15,723 |
| SOUTHERN YOUTH SPORTS | $14,400 |
| BEATRICE FINE ARTS BOOSTERS | $14,359 |
| COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC | $14,299 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $13,244 |
| BEATRICE BACKPACK PROGRAM | $12,157 |
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 (FY19–24, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- TCTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $191k · revenue +23%
- FOFOOD4HOPE OF NEBRASKA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +45% · 40% of their budget
- CPCOMMUNITY PANTRY & EMERG SRVC INC6× · 2019–2024 · $101k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- YRYOUTH RECREATION INCone grant, 2023 · $164k
- COCITY OF BEATRICE - TRAIL HEADone grant, 2021 · $50k
- OPONE PROPERTY AT A TIMEone grant, 2020 · $24k
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.
To serve becker county residents in need with programs that provide food, promote the value of nutrition and connects to community resources to ensure a meaningful impact to our community's well-being.
Community service
The organization's mission is to support the beatrice humane society, inc., whose mission is to shelter, protect and place lost and homeless companion animals in gage county, nebraska and to be an educational resource to the community.
Establish and operate a senior citizens center for beatrice and gage county nebraska
To provide education and preservation of the history of benton county
Operation of a county historical society and museum which produces exhibits promoting local history; manages a library relating to local history
Protect animals from abuse & neglect
United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.
To provide a variety of events including the county fair and other educational, agricultural, and entertainment events.
The foundation exists for the purpose of raising and providing funds to gage county, ne organizations engaged in providing the educational, cultural, recreational, historical, health and all meaningful needs of the citizens of gage county…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatrice Community Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Odell Nebraska Public Library. 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 23 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 59 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 NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD4HOPE OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PANTRY & EMERG SRVC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA YMCA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF BEATRICE ↗
- Who funds 4-H BUILDING INC ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds GAGE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ODELL NEBRASKA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD HOSPICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TO MOTHER MINISTRY OF THE BEATRICE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Leigh F Coffin Jane M Coffin & Leigh M Coffin Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Beatrice Community Hospital Foundation Inc · Margaret & Martha Thomas Foundation · Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gage County Foundation Inc 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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