Gage County Foundation Inc
Beatrice, NE · EIN 47-0649119. Reported 110 grants totalling $1,731,193 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,142. Half of what it reported fell between $7,085 and $15,601; the smallest was $5,016 and the largest $163,658. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Recreation Inc | Beatrice, NE | $163,658 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teen Challenge of the Midlands Inc | Colfax, IA | $152,036 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nebraska Community Foundation | Lincoln, NE | $139,003 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Community Hospital Foundation Inc | Beatrice, NE | $88,195 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Pantry and Emergency Services Inc | Beatrice, NE | $85,468 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| 4-H Building Inc | Beatrice, NE | $62,078 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope Crisis Center | Fairbury, NE | $54,682 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Beatrice - Trail Head | Beatrice, NE | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Adams Rescue | Adams, NE | $49,141 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southeast Nebraska YMCA Foundation Inc | Beatrice, NE | $48,155 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food 4HOPE of Nebraska Inc | Beatrice, NE | $47,573 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| FOOD4HOPE of Nebraska | Beatrice, NE | $45,883 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Backpack Program | Beatrice, NE | $43,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Pregnancy Resource Center of Beatrice | Beatrice, NE | $41,926 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Humane Society Inc | Beatrice, NE | $41,595 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Paul Lutheran Church | Beatrice, NE | $39,736 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Springs Ball Diamond Assn | Blue Springs, NE | $39,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gage County Agricultural Society | Beatrice, NE | $32,768 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Public Schools Foundation | Wymore, NE | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Odell Public Library | Odell, NE | $25,323 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adams Community Foundation | Adams, NE | $24,145 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Sertoma Club | Beatrice, NE | $21,870 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Players Inc | Beatrice, NE | $20,640 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Great Plains Welsh Hertiage Project | Wymore, NE | $20,297 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Gage Kiwanis Club | Beatrice, NE | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southern Wrestling Club | Wymore, NE | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Joseph Catholic Church of Beatrice | Beatrice, NE | $18,989 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Barneston Community Center Foundation | Holmesville, NE | $16,830 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Southern Public Schools Foundation | Wymore, NE | $15,619 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Youth Sports | Wymore, NE | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Fine Arts Boosters | Beatrice, NE | $14,359 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Players Inc | Beatrice, NE | $14,299 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cottonwood Hospice Charitable Foundation | Beatrice, NE | $13,832 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mother to Mother Ministry of the Beatrice Area Inc | Beatrice, NE | $13,687 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cortland Museum | Cortland, NE | $13,510 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | Beatrice, NE | $13,244 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adams Community Foundation | Adams, NE | $12,296 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beatrice Cemetery Association | Beatrice, NE | $12,194 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gage County Historical Society | Beatrice, NE | $11,707 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern School District | Wymore, NE | $11,093 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rita's Cat Rescue | Beatrice, NE | $10,886 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mother to Mother Ministry | Beatrice, NE | $10,173 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beatrice Youth Recreation Inc | Beatrice, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gage County Historical Society | Beatrice, NE | $9,471 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shepherd's Rest Goat & Sheep Rescue | Pickrell, NE | $9,043 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St John Lutheran Church Fdn | Beatrice, NE | $7,624 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wymore Food Pantry | Wymore, NE | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southeast Ne CASA | Seward, NE | $7,351 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stake Your Claim Foundation | Beatrice, NE | $6,991 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| CASA of Gage County | Beatrice, NE | $6,626 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beatrice Education Foundation | Beatrice, NE | $6,609 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Legion | Beatrice, NE | $6,560 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue River Area Agency on Aging | Beatrice, NE | $6,536 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johnson Cabin Museum | Blue Springs, NE | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beatrice Wrestling Club | Beatrice, NE | $5,637 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beatrice Educational Foundation | Beatrice, NE | $5,589 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beatrice Chamber of Commerce | Beatrice, NE | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue River Loss Team | Beatrice, NE | $5,266 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
29 of 58 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 25 | $397,897 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $319,409 | $11,248 |
| 2023 | 30 | $541,781 | $9,064 |
| 2024 | 33 | $472,106 | $10,822 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
91% of its giving went to organizations in Nebraska. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,142 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nebraska.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Gage County Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 493, Beatrice, NE, 68310.
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