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Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken

To provide scholarships.

$9.5M
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2026
4
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$360,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$900,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 4
FY2020 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving16$9.5M100%
FY20254$300k0%
FY20244$200k0%
FY20234$200k0%
FY20224$200k0%
FY20214$200k0%
FY20204$200kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Education$5.1MReligion$3.5MHuman Services$1.3MFood & Nutrition$975k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Denver$943,2501n/a
Hastings College Foundation$943,2501n/a
Central College$943,2501n/a
St Olaf College$943,2501n/a
Cozad Camping Ministry$900,0001n/a
St Marks Lutheran Church$900,0001n/a
Cozad Creates Caring$900,0001n/a
Christ Lutheran Church$900,0001n/a
Trinity Classical Academy$735,0001n/a
YMCA of Lincoln$360,0001n/a
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All grantees of Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Denver$943,2501n/a
Hastings College Foundation$943,2501n/a
Central College$943,2501n/a
St Olaf College$943,2501n/a
Cozad Camping Ministry$900,0001n/a
St Marks Lutheran Church$900,0001n/a
Cozad Creates Caring$900,0001n/a
Christ Lutheran Church$900,0001n/a
Trinity Classical Academy$735,0001n/a
YMCA of Lincoln$360,0001n/a
Cozad United Methodist Church$350,0001n/a
Nebraska Christian Schools Inc$310,0001n/a
American Lutheran Church$160,0001n/a
American Lutheran Church$108,5001n/a
Saint Mark Lutheran Church$100,0001n/a
First Presbyterian Church$50,0001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken

How much does Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken give?
Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken reported 20 grants totaling $9,546,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
What does Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (32%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: University of Denver ($943k), Hastings College Foundation ($943k), Central College ($943k).
Does Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken based?
Noel Cover Foundation Inc C0 Jerry Macken is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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