· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT MICHAEL BENEDICTINE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST WENCESLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN NEBRASKA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MONTE CASSINO SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TABITHA MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| MADONNA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE TRANSPLANT HOUSE | $4,000 |
| CREIGHTON COLLEGE OF NURSING | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +87%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES5× · 2017–2021 · $58k · revenue +20%
- MTMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH2× · 2020–2021 · $38k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +29%
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +5%
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +195%
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.
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.
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals is a Catholic organization that exists to provide medical and physical rehabilitation services to children and adults throughout the nation. We rehabilitate those who have sustained injuries or disabling…
Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.
End hunger together.
We, mercy hospital of franciscan sisters and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy hospital of franciscan sisters is a member of…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph R and Barbara a Gard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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