How much did ABEL FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ABEL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

health caregrievingpointesummereducationfriendshipchurch

2021

bridgeeducationhealth carelutheran churchhopechristianscouts

2022

children's zoolincolnlancaster childchild advoveteranscatholic churchsoutheast educatirefugee

2023

medicalculturalmalonebankkearneyparksresearch

2024

catholiccivilchamberlincoln lancasterheartland cancerasian culturalplymouth church

2025

way lincolnlancasterlincolnlancaster coupostarmy lincolnclinic heartsalvation armylux arts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $86k
$10k–50k37 grants · $716k
$50k–250k8 grants · $520k
$250k+5 grants · $2.8M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$933,333
MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER$750,000
LINCOLN YOUTH COMPLEX$500,000
CULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLN$333,333
LINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION$250,000
NEBRASKA GAME & PARKS FOUNDATION$100,000
FAMILY SERVICE LINCOLN$83,333
KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$70,000
LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$66,200
FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOO$50,000
NORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER$50,000
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$50,000
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COU$36,000
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COU$35,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $539k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 86 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$10M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+20%

Still filing today

52%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $715k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

MC
MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER
3× · 2023–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +999%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
2× · 2024–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +35%
LY
LINCOLN YOUTH COMPLEX
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +82%

Funded once

TI
TABITHA INC
one grant, 2022 · $265k · revenue -25%
MO
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ARTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +273%
AD
ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Promote alumni support for the university of nebraska - lincoln by engaging its students, alumni, and friends.

Education

Nebraska Sports Council

The nebraska sports council, which conducts the cornhusker state games, live healthy nebraska, and nsc racing events, is a nonprofit organization with a mission of providing quality competition for amateur athletes of all ages and to…

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Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Science & Tech

Nebraska Art Association

Through stewardship of our collection and financial resources, the sheldon art association supports the sheldon museum of arts mission to inspire inquiry and discovery, serving the university of nebraska, the state, and beyond.

Arts & Culture

Nebraska State Bar Foundation

See schedule o to serve the citizens of nebraska and the legal profession through the administration and funding of innovative and creative programs directed toward the improvement of the administration of justice and the fulfillment of…

Crime & Legal

Nebraska Humane Society

The nebraska humane society is committed to the protection of animals. the society provides education, gives sanctuary to animals, encourages adoption of animals, and promotes responsible pet ownership.

Animals

Go Beyond Nebraska

Service to youth

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Lincoln County Community

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy

Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Improving the quality of life through excellence in healthcare.

Health

Omaha Theater Company

To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater.

Arts & Culture

Lincoln Community Foundation

To Cultivate Lincoln Philanthropy and Stewardship for Today and Tomorrow

Philanthropy

Omaha Children's Museum

The underlying mission of the organization is to engage children's imaginations and create excitement about learning.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Cultural Endowment and the most unlike its peers is Tilt-Up Concrete Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1.0%1/102

the rest of the field

498/6,254

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/93

Grantees still filing

64/93

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,476,134Education$2,285,866Recreation & Sports$1,360,100Philanthropy$751,933Human Services$539,266Arts & Culture$530,100Environment$302,857

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.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE116.6× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Rogers Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster · Spreetail Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family 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 organisation ABEL 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: APRIL'S KIDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~80 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813759742 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on APRIL'S KIDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 80 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Abel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Abel Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ABEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Abel Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ABEL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Abel Foundation?

More from the funding graph