· Private foundation
Lois Eleanor Neff 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC | $6,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF CLARENCE | $6,000 |
| CLARENCE CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| SALT RIVER COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HANNIBAL FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS | $4,000 |
| SHELBINA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| HANNIBAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| RAY OF HOPE | $4,000 |
| SHELBINA ARTS COUNCIL | $3,500 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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; $4k 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
- SCSHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +30%
- NHNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +27%
- BBBirthday Blessings9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- HAHANNIBAL AREA NUTRITION CENTERone grant, 2017 · $4k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $4k
- HAHANNIBAL ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +58%
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.
To care for homeless, abused, neglected and abandoned animals and educate the community to instill an increased awareness and commitment to the responsibility of animal ownership and protection.
To provide care and adoption of unwanted domestic animals and low or no cost spay and neuter services for shelby county animal owners.
To advocate for humane treatment of all animals and encourage spaying and neutering to decrease overpopulation of domestic animals.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Animal well being and shelter operation
Food distribution to the needy
The humane society provides food, shelter, and medical attention to stray or lost animals. the shelter tries to find homes for these animals
Welfare and care of animals
Receive and dispense food to needy clients
To offer a nutrition program for older persons.
Provide for shelter, food, veterinary services and adoption of small animals. this shelter operates as a no kill shelter in north central iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelby County Food Pantry and the most unlike its peers is Hannibal Alliance for Youth Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 SHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Birthday Blessings ↗
- Who funds SHELBINA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN ↗
- Who funds HANNIBAL FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HANNIBAL ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
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.
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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 Lois Eleanor Neff 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.
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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