· Private foundation
The Chief Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- YOYMCA OF HASTINGS NEBRASKAone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONIPHAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling International ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chief Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chief Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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