· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OOOpera Omaha, Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $20k
- NANonprofit Association of the Midlands2× · 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 68 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 Carole's House of Hope ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL HOPE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds NOTHING BUT NET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leon J Millard funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leon J Millard. Bigger dots raise more.
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