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JEO Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Capital Human Society | $3,910 |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $3,540 |
| Kids and Dreams Foundation | $2,500 |
| Saunders County Emergency Pantry Foundation | $1,640 |
| Fremont Health Foundation | $1,100 |
| Apace Foundation | $1,000 |
| Hastings Catholic Schools | $1,000 |
| Wahoo Public Schools Foundation | $1,000 |
| American Heart Association | $1,000 |
| HumanKind Ministries | $920 |
| Feeding America | $750 |
| Oregon Trail Community Foundation | $720 |
| UnityPoint Health - Blank Children's Hospital | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $560 |
| Harvesters - The Community Food Network | $510 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 13 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- WPWAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%
- LWLIVE WELL GO FISH3× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +62%
- HMHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SMSaunders Medical Center Foundationone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -13%
- PSPeru State College Foundationone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -53%
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.
Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.
To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
End hunger together.
To lead the community wide effort to end hunger in eastern iowa and western illinois. we will do this by leveraging partnerships to help people in need to stabilize their lives, engaging the public on hunger issues, advocating on behalf of…
Food shelf providing food assistance to people in need in carver county.
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
Feed the needy people of benton county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for the Heartland and the most unlike its peers is North Polk Fine Arts Boosters 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 37 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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 104 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 St Anthony Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Peru State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
- Who funds YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVE WELL GO FISH ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN GATE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REGION V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds North Polk Fine Arts Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Linked2Literacy ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY YOUTH ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
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 · The Sherwood Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Sunderland 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 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.
- Ella Curran Community Food Bank — 70% of income from government
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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