· Private foundation
James Stuart III Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Plymouth Church | $80,000 |
| Phi Delta Theta Foundation | $40,000 |
| Lincoln Community Foundation | $40,000 |
| Food Bank of Lincoln | $38,050 |
| Tabitha Foundation | $32,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $30,000 |
| Centerpointe | $30,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $27,000 |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $25,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $25,000 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund - James Stuart III Family Foundation Fund | $10,000 |
| The Living Desert | $10,000 |
| Friendship Home | $7,050 |
| Lincoln Public Schools Foundation | $5,000 |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $5,000 |
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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MTMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH7× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +148%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +31%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH7× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +384%
Funded once
- JSJames Stuart III Foundation Fund Advised Fundone grant, 2017 · $30k
- JSJames Stuart III Family Foundation Fundone grant, 2017 · $25k
- UOU of N Foundation Fund 01064930one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To improve lives and build stronger communities through better health.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Melvin W Jones 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 38 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 92 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 MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUYUNA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CTR ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Donlan Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family 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 Stuart III Family 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.
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