· Private foundation
Niebrugge Cares 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARY OF THE LAKE | $5,000 |
| ST ANTHONY GRADE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CEFS | $5,000 |
| BALLARD NATURE CENTER | $3,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| EFFINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SHSACRED HEART CHURCH3× · 2019–2021 · $30k
- CCEFS3× · 2018–2025 · $28k
- SHSACRED HEART SCHOOL6× · 2017–2025 · $27k
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF EFFINGHAM CNTY INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -31%
- CNCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +116%
- ECEFFINGHAM COMMUNITY ON AGINGone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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Rape crisis and abuse shelter
The three-fold mission of Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering is to provide a temporary safe haven for companion animals to keep pets and their people together in times of crisis; increase pet retention, and decrease the number of animals…
The organization provides emergency temporary shelter for women attempting to escape sexual exploitation.
Casa glynn provides trained and supervised volunteers to advocate for the rights and needs of victims of child abuse and neglect.
To provide a temporary, safe and loving home for children of families in stressful situations, to support and strengthen families and to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Provide immediate refuge for children ages birth to 12 whose families are experiencing an unexpected, unstable, or serious condition or crisis.
The crisis center is committed to the prevention and elimination of domestic violence and sexual assault. we work to enhance safety and to promote equality in relationships.
Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.
Assistance to victims of violence.provide women & children salfe shelter, support groups, advocacy, referrals, financial assistance, hotline.
To rescue domestic animals from cruelty, neglect, and abandonment and place
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ballard Family Nature Center Inc. 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 28 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 THIS ABLE VETERAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EFFINGHAM CNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds CASA of Effingham County ↗
- Who funds Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN) ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Niebrugge Cares 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.