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Acklie Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$12MArts & Culture$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.9MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$993kFood & Nutrition$219kYouth Development$210kRecreation & Sports$200kPublic Benefit$187kOther$6.6M
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 73 grants below total $14,297,759 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,650,759 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $353,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $831k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+12 grants · $11M
$45,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$156M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Nebraska Foundation$2,000,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$1,800,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$1,600,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$1,250,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$1,114,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$1,000,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$750,000
Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools$500,000
Madonna Foundation$333,334
Gothenbrug Impact Center$300,000
Family Service Association of Lincoln$250,000
St. Mary Catholic Church of Denton$250,000
Bryan Foundation$234,320
CenterPointe$200,000
Southeast Community College Educational Foundation$192,856
02Your 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 25 repeat orgs$9.8M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
43

Total granted

$15M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+14%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SC
    SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $614k · revenue +14%
  • BF
    Bryan Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $434k · revenue +8%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Nebraska Foundation - College of Engineering
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • UO
    University of Nebraska Foundation - Husker Athletic
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • NC
    NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +42%

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

03Your 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.

1
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

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

Philanthropy
2
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
3
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
4
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

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5
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

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6
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table

The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.

Civil Rights
7
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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8
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy
9
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
10
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
11
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Susan Laflesche Picotte Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCollege Foundation SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Literacy TutoringLocal History MuseumsSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Civil Legal ServicesPregnancy Support CentersYmca Community CentersDomestic Violence and Sexua…Childhood Cancer SupportCommunity Arts CentersGovernment Accountability &…Asian American Civic & Cult…Christian Outreach Ministri…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Veteran Support ServicesFaith-Based Senior LivingYouth Development CentersFood Pantries and AssistanceFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number15%3%<5yr10%17%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr17%21%35–55yr24%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value15%3%<5yr10%24%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr17%34%35–55yr24%26%55yr+

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
8%
1,067/14,033

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.

03the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 101 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
36/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $9,519,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $614,436 · Education+6 more — $647,000 · Education+6 moreUniversity of Nebraska Foundation - College of Engineering — $2,000,000 · OtherUniversity of Nebraska Foundatio…University of Nebraska Foundation - Husker Athletic — $1,000,000 · OtherUniversity of Nebraska Foundatio…NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION — $664,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSI…University of Nebraska Foundation - Law School — $510,000 · OtherUniversity of Nebraska Foundatio…National Audubon Society, Inc. — $333,000 · OtherGothenbrug Impact Center — $300,000 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH OF DENTON — $250,000 · Other+43 more — $2,147,500 · Other+43 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,571,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUND…NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $166,667 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA …NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $85,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $143,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $1,333,334 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation Inc — $227,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $140,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $55,800 · PhilanthropyBryan Foundation — $434,320 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INC — $233,000 · HealthSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthKIMBALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $50,000 · HealthGOTHENBURG EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COALITION — $333,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN — $250,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY YOUTH — $57,000 · Human ServicesLinked2Literacy — $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $50,000 · Human ServicesNorth Fork Area Transit Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $48,828 · Human Services+6 more — $94,115 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK — $19,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$11,780,436Other$7,204,500Arts & Culture$2,155,667Philanthropy$1,856,134Health$1,067,320Human Services$992,943Food & Nutrition$219,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $9,519,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,571,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $1,333,334 over 2y, 20% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $614,436 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBryan Foundation — $434,320 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGOTHENBURG EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COALITION — $333,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN — $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC — $233,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc — $227,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTabitha Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEWARD CHANGING THE GAME INC — $200,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY — $175,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $166,667 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $128,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $125,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STATE LEGISLATORS — $100,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetSUSAN LAFLESCHE PICOTTE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $85,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH — $57,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLinked2Literacy — $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNorth Fork Area Transit Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIMBALL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEBRASKA VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $48,828 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST — $46,650 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED — $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN — $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLEADERSHIP LINCOLN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEBRASKA PRESS ASSOC FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC — $38,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC — $35,800 over 2y, 3.2% of budget
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 Fou…The Sherwood Foundati…Cooper FoundationAbel FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…Nebraska Community Fo…United Way of Lincoln…D F Dillon FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Duncan Family TrustSpreetail Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE110.2× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · D F Dillon Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Spreetail 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Acklie Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Acklie Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $13M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines