· 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 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.
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 |
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 (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. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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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
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 28 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 THIS ABLE VETERAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EFFINGHAM CNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Stopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN) ↗
- Who funds CASA of Effingham County ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Niebrugge Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Niebrugge Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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