· Private foundation
The LeBaron Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way | $15,000 |
| Charles Malone Center | $10,000 |
| Clinic With a Heart | $10,000 |
| Mid-America Arts Alliance | $5,000 |
| Sheldon Art Association | $5,000 |
| Nebraska Cultural Endowment | $5,000 |
| Lincoln Community Foundation | $3,000 |
| Nebraska Cultural Endowment | $2,500 |
| MONA Courtesy Fund | $2,500 |
| Lux Center for the Arts | $1,500 |
| Charlie Russell Riders Foundation | $1,000 |
| Domesti-PUPS | $500 |
| Lincoln High Booster Club | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your 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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- NCNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +10%
- NANEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +71%
- LCLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- WCWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $43k · revenue +22%
- NSNEBRASKA SPORTS COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +11%
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the minnetonka center for the arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages,…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Cultural Endowment and the most unlike its peers is Charlie Russell Riders Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 WILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLINIC WITH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTI-PUPS ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Complete Children's Health Charitab Trust · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation
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 LeBaron 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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