· Private foundation
Yockey 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| SIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| THE JOY SCHOOL PL INC | $5,000 |
| SUNRISE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND | $5,000 |
| SISTER OF ST FRANCIS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MUMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $78k · revenue +36%
- SCSIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA3× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -52%
- TFTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +320%
- SPST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
The mission of the sioux city regional convention center and visitors bureau is to promote tourism and the hospitality industry in the greater siouxland area.
The siouxland community foundation is a trusted organization that connects people who care with causes that matter by providing a means to receive gifts and distribute grants in response to community needs.
Establish relationships between siouxland youth and mature, responsible screened adult volunteers.
To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.
To provide support and help to promote national and international winter sports with regard to competition, training, and education.
To promote economic growth in the tri-state siouxland area
To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.
Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning
To enrich the quality of life and support independence and vitality for our members. this is done by meeting the social, recreational and educational needs of members, in an environment that is fun, safe, inclusive and courteous for all
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Miracle League of Sioux City and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MANOR ↗
- Who funds JACKSON RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
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: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Chesterman Family Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Gleeson Family Foundation · Greenberg Foundation · Berenstein Family Foundation · Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp · American Endowment Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Yockey 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.