· Private foundation
James M Cox Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN | $26,000 |
| NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $17,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA | $16,000 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| WAYNE STATE COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| METRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| GRACE CHILDRENS HOME | $5,000 |
| OUT OF POVERTY | $5,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA KEARNEY | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| NEBRASKA COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL | $2,000 |
| CHADRON STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| PERU STATE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GCGRACE CHILDREN'S HOME COMPANY6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +12%
- OBOMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +118%
- NWNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAone grant, 2023 · $6k
- MCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CUCreighton Universityone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
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.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
We are a Catholic, co-educational, liberal arts university founded in 1843 by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. Clarke educates students at the post-secondary level in the liberal arts and sciences, the…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia University and the most unlike its peers is Grace Children's Home Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 GRACE CHILDREN'S HOME COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Clarkson College ↗
- Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Educationquest Foundation Inc · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Marjorie Leu Skala Foundation Trust · Cooper Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Hooker Cty Community Foundationinc · The Steinhart Foundation Inc · Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Ibm International 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 James M Cox Foundation 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.