· Public charity
Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken
To provide scholarships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- $50k–250k8 grants · $692k
- $250k+12 grants · $8.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $900,000 |
| ST MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $900,000 |
| COZAD CAMPING MINISTRY | $900,000 |
| COZAD CREATES CARING | $900,000 |
| HASTING COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION | $875,000 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION | $875,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION | $875,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER DISTRIBUTION | $875,000 |
| TRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $735,000 |
| YMCA OF LINCOLN | $360,000 |
| COZAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $350,000 |
| NE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC | $310,000 |
| AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $108,500 |
| ST MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
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 (FY26–26, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M 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
- HCHASTING COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $325k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER DISTRIBUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $325k
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION6× · 2020–2025 · $325k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERgraduatedone grant, 2026 · $943k · revenue +33%
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2026 · $943k · revenue ×31
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGEone grant, 2026 · $943k · revenue +7%
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.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
K-8 school
The mission of providence christian college is to equip students to be firmly grounded in biblical truth, thoroughly educated in the liberal arts, and fully engaged in their church, community, and the world, for the glory of god and for…
Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Provide a catholic liberal arts education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The college is a four year coeducational liberal arts college affiliated with the churches of christ
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
Columbia christian schools seeks to provide a christ-centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics to students in preschool through 12th grade.
The mission of lincoln christian school is to teach the truth by studying god's world in light of god's word, presenting the gospel of jesus christ, providing mental growth through sound basic academic disciplines, stimulating spiritual…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Classical Academy and the most unlike its peers is Cozad Camping Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 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.
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 Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken 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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