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Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family 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.

$105k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$105k22%
FY20249$100k33%
FY20235$77k40%
FY20225$70k60%
FY20217$70k57%
FY20203$64k33%
FY20194$53k50%
FY20183$46k33%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$156kHealth$137kEducation$120kFood & Nutrition$74kReligion$60kRecreation & Sports$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Madonna Foundation$127,00090%
Catholic Social Services$58,20050%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$49,5003n/a
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach$38,00021%
Monte Cassino School Inc$35,0002n/a
Mount Michael Benedictine School$26,5002n/a
Food Bank for the Heartland$20,00010%
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc$20,00010%
Heart Ministry Center$18,80010%
Gift of Life Inc$4,0001n/a
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Madonna Foundation$127,00090%
Catholic Social Services$58,20050%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$49,5003n/a
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach$38,00021%
Monte Cassino School Inc$35,0002n/a
Mount Michael Benedictine School$26,5002n/a
Food Bank for the Heartland$20,00010%
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc$20,00010%
Heart Ministry Center$18,80010%
Gift of Life Inc$4,0001n/a
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$2,50010%
Creighton University$1,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Madonna Foundation: $127,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $58,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMatt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach: $38,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank for the Heartland: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Lincoln Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeart Ministry Center: $18,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation

How much does Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation give?
Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (22%), Education (19%).
Who are Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Madonna Foundation ($127k), Catholic Social Services ($58k), Cross Catholic Outreach Inc ($50k).
Does Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation based?
Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation is based in NE.

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 23 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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