· Private foundation
The Chief Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CROSSROADS MISSION AVENUE | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY RENSSELAER | $5,000 |
| CENTURA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
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 (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +195%
- WRWOOD RIVER VISION 20202× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +53%
- CCCROSSROADS CENTER INC2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM EPIC DISCOVERY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $60k
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +21%
- AHAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -95%
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.
Scholarships and financial assistance to promote educational opportunities at kankakee community college
To solicit, receive, and maintain funds in order to contribute to the long-range goals, objectives, and success of corning community college.
Support for community colleges
The Northampton Community College Foundation, raises, invests and manages private resources for Northampton Community College, it's students, and it's staff.
To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
Greenfield community college foundation supports greenfield community college (hereafter referred to as the college) by raising funds, developing resources and building philanthropic and community relationships to enhance programs and…
A conduit for public contributions and other fund-raising activities which benefit programs at Cleveland Community College
To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.
The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.
The lansing community college foundation provides support to inspire and enable the pursuit of education for the betterment of all. our donors change lives and enrich our community.
The kellogg community college foundation generates and encourages philanthropic giving and manages funds exclusively for kcc to enhance the quality of education while building stronger communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Vision 2020. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JASPER NEWTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER VISION 2020 ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONIPHAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling International ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Virgil Eihusen Foundation Inc · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Chief Foundation Inc 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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