· Private foundation
James M Cox Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OUT OF POVERTY | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME | $5,000 |
| GRACE CHILDRENS HOME | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA KEARNEY | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| NEBRASKA COLLEGE OF TECHNICAL | $2,000 |
| DOANE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| XENON ACADEMY | $2,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- CCClarkson Collegeone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +9%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 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 DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clarkson College ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James M Cox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M Cox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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