· 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 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 $10k22 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $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 |
| PET PARTNERS | $4,303 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUND | $4,303 |
| MILLER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $4,193 |
| PAWS GIVING INDEPENDENCE | $4,027 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +73%
- OHOSF Healthcare Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +95%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF ABUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARKgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +148%
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.
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
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 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 NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rex and Nelle Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rex and Nelle Jackson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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