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R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation at a glance

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R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$17kHealth$12kEducation$5kYouth Development$2kCommunity Improvement$2kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$117k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HOPE VENTURE$3,000
MOTHERS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,059
LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,026
LINCOLN SOUTHEAST PTSO$1,000
LIGHTHOUSE$780
Individual grant recipient$750
CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION$512
STANDING UP TO POTS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%SECOND STORY: $1k → 6%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $512 → 14%CHILDREN AND THE EARTH: $2k → 8%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $512 → 14%CHAD TOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $512 → 14%THE CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LIGHTHOUSE: $780 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
WY
OH
UT
NE
VA
KS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 59% of R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 17%.

R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 7 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +175% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$35k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+175%
+68%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthReligionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HV
    HOPE VENTURE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +175%
  • CD
    CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +90%
  • SU
    STANDING UP TO POTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MAP International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +68%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMERS ASSN OF NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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2
Habibi International

Habibi International seeks to transform the lives of refugees and internal displaced persons in the Middle East with the love of Jesus by providing humanitarian relief and sustainable development in partnership with local churches and NGOs

International
3
MedGlobal Inc

MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…

Health
4
Hope Unlimited

Hope Unlimited inspires hope and renews lives in Kenya and Cameroon by providing access to quality healthcare, clean water, education, economic development and Christian resources for spiritual growth.

Human Services
5
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
6
Heart Healers International

Improve outcomes for African children with heart disease

Health
7
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
8
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Wings of Hope

To save and change lives through the power of aviation. throughout its 60-year history, wings of hope has provided lifesaving care and access to resources in more than 50 countries. the organization was nominated twice for the nobel peace…

International
11
Health Builders International

Health Builders is a non-profit organization registered in the United States of America and in Rwanda. Health Builders strengthens health center management, improves clinical care and builds health care facilities for the rural communities…

International
12
International Rescue Committee Inc

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Map International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Standing Up to Pots Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $11,092 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIGHT OF HOPE KENYA: $3,084 · OtherLIGHT OF HOPE KENYAALZHEIMERS ASSN OF NEBRASKA: $2,500 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSN OF NEBRASKAIndividual grant recipient: $1,263 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINCOLN SOUTHEAST PTSO: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,512 · Other+3 moreHOPE VENTURE: $9,500 · InternationalHOPE VENTUREMAP International Inc: $2,500 · InternationalMAP International IncLifting Hands International: $529 · InternationalCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,536 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT …CHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND THE …ABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesABUSED AND HOMELE…LIGHTHOUSE: $780 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSESTANDING UP TO POTS INC: $4,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthMothers Without Borders: $1,500 · HealthKostopulos Dream Foundation: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRABBLE MILL: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $1,026 · PhilanthropyTHE SHACK: $500 · Religion
Other$20,451International$12,529Human Services$8,316Education$4,000Health$4,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Philanthropy$1,026Religion$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE VENTURE: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $4,536 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTANDING UP TO POTS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMAP International Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN AND THE EARTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifting Hands International: $529 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to R Kent & Terri N Jex Family Foundation 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.

    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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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