· Private foundation
Rex and Nelle Jackson 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 $10k22 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST EDWARD CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $12,178 |
| OSF HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $8,877 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $7,363 |
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE | $6,728 |
| PEORIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $6,728 |
| ST MARY'S GRADE SCHOOL | $5,828 |
| PETS FOR SENIORS | $5,148 |
| CAMP DALLAS | $5,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $4,968 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUND | $4,303 |
| PET PARTNERS | $4,303 |
| MILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $4,193 |
| PAWS GIVING INDEPENDENCE | $4,027 |
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 (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +73%
- OHOSF Healthcare Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +82%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +148%
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.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To promote humane treatment of all animals within the community
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Our mission is to end pet homelessness by empowering pet owners and shelters with the resources that they need to be successful.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…
The primary focus of pixie's animal welfare society (paws) is as an animal rescue group promoting 100% sterilization of companion animals in order to reduce or eliminate the number of unwanted and homeless pets. the secondary focus is on…
To offer financial assistance to individuals to aid them in spaying/neuter companion animals and to decrease the number of animals euthanized at local pounds.
Paws chicago is a national leader in the no kill animal welfare movement, helping more than 23,842 homeless and at-risk pets each year through comprehensive spay/neuter, medical, and adoption programs.
Prevention of cruelty to animals
Rescue and rehoming of German Shorthaired Pointers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE ↗
- Who funds PEORIA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pets for Seniors ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paws Giving Independence ↗
- Who funds MILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds A R K Humane Society Ltd ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Dogs on Deployment ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds STRAY ANIMAL MIDWAY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Peoria Youth Hockey Association ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE DANIEL J ELIAS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Molly Bears ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK ↗
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: Peoria Area Community Foundation · The Bielfeldt Foundation · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Heart of Illinois United Way Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Rex and Nelle Jackson 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.
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