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The Giving 3 Foundation at a glance

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The Giving 3 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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$5.2MYouth Development$5.0MArts & Culture$4.2MHealth$1.4MEducation$1.3MPhilanthropy$660kInternational$635kHuman Services$313kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.8M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$500,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS$450,000
PROJECT HARMONY$300,000
GIRLS INC$300,000
ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME$250,000
CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION$250,000
ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB$250,000
STRONGMINDS$250,000
CARPLS$250,000
NEW INCENTIVES$100,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO$100,000
PAWS CHICAGO$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR NONVIOLENCE CHICAGO$100,000
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION$100,000
UPTOWN PEOPLE'S LAW CENTER$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $5k → 10%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $3k → 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $36k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $51 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $100k → 14%ONE CHILD INC: $5k → 12%CARPLS: $250k → 14%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $8k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $100k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $3k → 12%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

IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 38 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
53

Total granted

$16M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+1%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PH
    PROJECT HARMONY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +117%
  • CK
    COMPLETELY KIDS
    3× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • BE
    BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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5
Omaha Children's Museum

Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…

Arts & Culture
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
8
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
9
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
12
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Lyon Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 113 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
40/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPLETELY KIDS: $2,035,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDSBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,854,682 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MI…NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $716,225 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATIONGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHAPROJECT HARMONY: $4,400,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT HARMONY+2 more: $110,000 · Crime & LegalOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $2,000,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRU…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $523,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRA…AVENUE SCHOLARS: $500,000 · EducationAVENUE SCHOLARSTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $251,500 · EducationTHE CENTRAL HIGH SC…+7 more: $29,000 · EducationORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $1,026,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM O…CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGA…ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB: $250,000 · OtherABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POV…ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME: $250,000 · OtherROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HO…STRONGMINDS INC: $250,000 · OtherSTRONGMINDS INCCOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $250,000 · OtherCOORDINATED ADVICE & R…PAWS CHICAGO: $155,000 · Other+66 more: $1,392,637 · Other+66 moreJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,115,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $87,895 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Health+4 more: $65,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $550,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $75,500 · PhilanthropyPETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $68,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,250 · Philanthropy
Youth Development$4,910,907Crime & Legal$4,510,000Education$3,304,000Other$3,823,637Arts & Culture$1,202,895Health$1,065,000Philanthropy$695,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $4,400,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $2,035,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $2,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,854,682 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,115,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $716,225 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $550,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $523,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS: $500,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $305,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $251,500 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Nonviolence Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUptown People's Law Center: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $89,134 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION: $68,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $35,604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANEKO: $29,895 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLILY HAVEN: $20,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetSAVED TO SERVE INTERNATION MINISTRI (SSIM): $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARSWOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBellevue University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $7,500 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.

Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…The Charles and Mary …The Holland FoundationThe Hawks FoundationHarley and Beth Schra…Suzanne & Walter Scot…Jewish Federation of …Peter Kiewit Foundati…Phillip and Terri Sch…The Claire M Hubbard …
Robert B Daugherty FoundationNE54.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard 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 The Giving 3 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Giving 3 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Giving 3 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Giving 3 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 113 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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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home