· Private foundation
LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Concordia University Foundation | $283,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $251,500 |
| Zion Classical Academy | $240,600 |
| Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation | $150,000 |
| Crossroads Center | $135,000 |
| Grace Life Church | $111,000 |
| Wellspring Pregnancy & Health Center | $99,000 |
| Ubuntu Life Foundation | $94,500 |
| PreBorn | $82,500 |
| Catholic Social Services of Nebraska | $81,000 |
| One Life Church Bay Area | $75,000 |
| Exile International | $75,000 |
| Time of Celebration Ministries Church | $75,000 |
| The Mission North Shore | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 23 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k 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
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA8× · 2017–2024 · $761k · revenue +89%
- CICREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $537k · revenue +116% · 43% of their budget
- CCCROSSROADS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $513k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- NDNE District LCMS (Project Compass)one grant, 2020 · $30k
- HCHastings College Foundation Barrett Alumni Centerone grant, 2020 · $30k
- HCHastings College Foundation Barrettone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is POST11AMERICAN Legion Jr Baseball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 277 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds CREATION INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Water For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds EXILE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds CTC INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS GATE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
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: Hastings Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Sunnyside Inc · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · Kitty M Perkins Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee · Bnsf Railway 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 LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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