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James Stuart III Family Foundation at a glance

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James Stuart III Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$456k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$721kReligion$537kPhilanthropy$320kEducation$285kHuman Services$244kHousing & Shelter$183kFood & Nutrition$110kAnimals$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Living Desert$10,000
Schwab Charitable Fund - James Stuart III Family Foundation Fund$10,000
Friendship Home$7,050
Sheldon Art Association$5,000
Angel View Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Longville Area Community Foundation: $5k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $5k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $5k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $5k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $5k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $3k → 14%Longville Food Shelf: $1k → 14%Longville Food Shelf: $1k → 14%Longville Area Community Foundation: $1k → 14%Angel Guardians: $750 → 12%Angel Guardians: $500 → 12%CASA for Lancaster County: $500 → 13%Lighthouse: $3k → 13%Lighthouse: $3k → 13%Lighthouse: $3k → 13%Lighthouse: $1k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MN
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
NE
VA
AZ
TN
DC
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 54 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
31

Total granted

$2.1M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+19%

Still filing today

65%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MT
    MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH
    7× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +148%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +31%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    7× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +578%

Funded once

  • JS
    James Stuart III Foundation Fund Advised Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • UO
    U of N Foundation Fund 01064930
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • JS
    James Stuart III Family Foundation Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
2
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
3
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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4
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
5
Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation

To improve lives and build stronger communities through better health.

Health
6
Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Npr Foundation

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…

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9
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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10
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
11
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

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…

Health
12
Jefferson Regional Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Plymouth Church: $515,000 · OtherFirst Plymouth ChurchPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $42,400 · OtherLincoln Public Schools Foundation: $35,300 · OtherLIVING DESERT THE: $45,000 · Other+50 more: $364,217 · Other+50 moreThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $220,500 · HealthThe Tabitha Foundation IncMAYO CLINIC: $205,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $160,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR P…CENTERPOINTE INC: $137,500 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $41,000 · HealthBryan Foundation: $36,200 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $31,000 · Health+6 more: $27,200 · HealthMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $230,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT …LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,000 · Human ServicesLONGVILLE AR…FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $25,300 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP H…LIGHTHOUSE: $10,050 · Human Services+3 more: $3,750 · Human ServicesLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $189,334 · PhilanthropyLincoln C…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $35,700 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADV…+4 more: $9,250 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $162,000 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $14,600 · EducationBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $9,600 · Education+2 more: $700 · EducationFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $103,050 · Food & NutritionLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $51,300 · AnimalsCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $34,050 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $5,750 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,250 · AnimalsWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$1,001,917Health$858,400Human Services$298,100Philanthropy$234,284Education$186,900Food & Nutrition$103,050Animals$101,850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $230,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $220,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $205,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $189,334 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $162,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC: $137,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $103,050 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $51,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $42,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBryan Foundation: $36,200 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $35,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $34,050 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $30,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $25,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $14,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCUYUNA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPESPOKE: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $10,050 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $9,600 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $9,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CTR: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $5,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMAN RESOURCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLONGVILLE AREA FOOD SHELF INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetProject Pinkd Inc: $1,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL GUARDIANS INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTI-PUPS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMelvin W Jones Foundation: $600 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $100 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…D F Dillon FoundationCooper FoundationBettenhausen Family F…Rogers FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…Kinder Porter Scott F…Spreetail FoundationDonlan FoundationLee and Debbie Stuart…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE57.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James Stuart III Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Stuart III Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 James Stuart III Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James Stuart III Family 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 92 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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