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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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$31kEducation$26kFood & Nutrition$21kHuman Services$17kPhilanthropy$8kAnimals$6kArts & Culture$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$720
Median grant
5
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
American Heart Association$1,000
Apace Foundation$1,000
Hastings Catholic Schools$1,000
Wahoo Public Schools Foundation$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $480 → 12%Hope Harbor Service Center: $500 → 12%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $500 → 13%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $500 → 13%Live Well Go Fish: $500 → 13%New Opportunities: $500 → 9%NEW OPPORTUNITIES: $310 → 9%Visionary Youth: $1k → 13%KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Kids and Dreams Foundation: $3k → 11%TOGETHER: $2k → 12%LINKED2LITERACY: $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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 28 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
61

Total granted

$57k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • WP
    WAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • LW
    LIVE WELL GO FISH
    3× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +62%
  • HM
    HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SM
    Saunders Medical Center Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -13%
  • PS
    Peru State College Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -45%
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
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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2
Second Harvest Foodbank of North Central Ohio

To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

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.

Human Services
6
Food Bank of Lincoln Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).

Food & Nutrition
7
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
8
River Bend Food Reservoir

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 & Nutrition
9
Southwest Carver County Food Shelf

Food shelf providing food assistance to people in need in carver county.

Food & Nutrition
10
House of Hope Midwest

The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.

Human Services
11
Kansas Food Bank Foundation Inc

To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.

Food & Nutrition
12
Benton County Food Pantry

Feed the needy people of benton county

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank for the Heartland; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 104 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Saunders Medical Center Foundation: $10,000 · OtherSaunders Medical Center FoundationSt Anthony Foundation: $8,000 · OtherSt Anthony FoundationHASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $7,000 · OtherHASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLSBISHOP NEUMANN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $6,750 · OtherBISHOP NEUMANN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLWAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherWAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $3,540 · OtherSAUNDERS COUNTY EMERGENCY PANTRY: $3,525 · Other+65 more: $40,084 · Other+65 moreKIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesKIDS AND DREA…TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $2,400 · Human ServicesTOGETHER INC …LIVE WELL GO FISH: $1,500 · Human ServicesLIVE WELL GO …Linked2Literacy: $1,000 · Human ServicesLinked2Litera…VISIONARY YOUTH: $1,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY YOU…COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $810 · Human Services+3 more: $1,380 · Human Services+3 moreYORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGARDEN GATE RANCH INC: $1,200 · PhilanthropyARISTOCRAT CHARITIES: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,000 · PhilanthropyREGION V FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON TRAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $720 · PhilanthropyNorfolk Rescue Mission Inc: $500 · PhilanthropyFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $3,140 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,115 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $1,035 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $750 · Food & NutritionMERCY MEALS: $280 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $175 · Food & NutritionRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $2,000 · HealthFREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,100 · HealthHOPE CRISIS CENTER: $860 · HealthBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $370 · Health+1 more: $110 · HealthCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,910 · AnimalsHEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS: $500 · AnimalsWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $600 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN SOX INCORPORATED: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$84,899Human Services$15,590Philanthropy$7,420Food & Nutrition$6,495Health$4,440Animals$4,410Recreation & Sports$3,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Anthony Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWAHOO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $3,540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $3,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeru State College Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE WELL GO FISH: $1,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN GATE RANCH INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $1,035 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLinked2Literacy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARISTOCRAT CHARITIES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Polk Fine Arts Boosters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREGION V FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CRISIS CENTER: $860 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC: $810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN SOX INCORPORATED: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorfolk Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOSPEL MISSION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY MEALS: $280 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject 2 Restore Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOPEKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Norfolk: $110 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS INC: $110 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.

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…The Sherwood Foundati…First Interstate Banc…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Pella Rolscreen Found…Nebraska Community Fo…Lee and Debbie Stuart…Assurity Life Foundat…Topeka Community Foun…Union Pacific Foundat…The Sunderland Founda…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • Ella Curran Community Food Bank: 70% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to JEO Foundation?

Find your warmest path to JEO 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 104 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home