How much did JEO Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of JEO Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

replenishing foodfood supplyscholarshipoperation

2021

replenishing foodfood supplyoperation

2022

hopesaunders

2023

lincolnhope

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$159k

Total assets

Largest grants

KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION$5,000
BISHOP NEUMANN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$1,000
WAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,000
SESOSTRIS SHRINE$949
VFW POST 4502$560
LINCOLN SOX$500
ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST CHURCH$500
LOURES EVENT$500
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL$500
CORNHUSKER COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$500
MARY OUR QUEEN$500
NEMAHA MUDDY HOOPER CREEK ASSOCIATION$500
OPEN DOOR MISSION$480
FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE$430

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$42k · 24 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$42k

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%

+12%

Still filing today

33%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

SA
St Anthony Foundation
4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +19%
WP
Wahoo Public Schools Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +67%
DS
Down Syndrome Alliance of the Midlands
2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +168%

Funded once

SM
Saunders Medical Center Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $10k
FB
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +22%
PS
PERU STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lincoln County Community

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy

Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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Siouxland Habitat for Humanity

To provide affordable housing for low-income families

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Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment

Creating and improving housing to open doors for economic opportunities.

Human Services

Food Bank of Lincoln Foundation

To provide support for the activities of the food bank of lincoln, inc.

Food & Nutrition

Home Buyers Assistance Foundation a Ne

To support first-time home buyers in nebraska, with an emphasis on low and moderate income individuals and communities.

Housing & Shelter

New Community Development Corporation

Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity of North Central Iowa

The purpose of the organizion is to create decent, affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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Nebraskans for Better Governance

To promote election reform measures in the State of Nebraska.

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Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of

To keep families close through places, programs and partnerships that directly improve children's wellbeing, supporting families during thier most challenging times.

Human Services

Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center

Guiding INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Health

Neighborhood Food Bank

To provide food to individuals in need in northern iowa.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities and the most unlike its peers is Garden Gate Ranch Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 46. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

988/18,437

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.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

21/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$73,370Human Services$8,880Food & Nutrition$4,535Health$4,459Philanthropy$4,200Recreation & Sports$3,100Education$3,000

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.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Dolezal Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 organisation JEO 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIVE WELL GO FISH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813510965 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LIVE WELL GO FISH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to JEO Foundation?

Find your warmest path to JEO Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JEO Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to JEO Foundation?

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JEO Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to JEO Foundation?

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