· Private foundation
Leon J Millard
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS | $15,000 |
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER | $15,000 |
| CAROLE'S HOUSE OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| DIBS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| AVENUE SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| NOTHING BUT NET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GENERATION DIAMOND CORP | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER | $10,000 |
| FINANCIAL HOPE COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- NANONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS2× · 2020–2024 · $20k
- OOOpera Omaha, Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $20k
- RIRELEASE Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $15k
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $29k
- SFSIENA FRANCIS HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $26k
- VNVisiting Nurse Health Services (DBA Visiting Nurse Association/VNA)one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is El Museo Latino. 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 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 68 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 Carole's House of Hope ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL HOPE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds DIBS for Kids ↗
- Who funds Generation Diamond Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Leon J Millard 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.
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.