· 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARENCE CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF CLARENCE | $6,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| SALT RIVER COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC | $6,000 |
| HANNIBAL FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HANNIBAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| RAY OF HOPE | $4,000 |
| SHELBINA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS | $4,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| SHELBINA ARTS COUNCIL | $3,500 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| ADAIR COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lois Eleanor Neff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lois Eleanor Neff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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