· Private foundation
Adams RBG Empowerment Fund
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Education Rights Counsel | $50,000 |
| Nebraska Appleseed | $30,000 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $25,000 |
| Nebraska Civic Engagement Table | $22,625 |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $20,000 |
| Lincoln Community Foundation | $18,000 |
| Rewire News Group | $15,000 |
| Repro TLC | $10,000 |
| Friends of Lied Center for Performing Arts | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 |
| ACLU Foundation | $5,000 |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Foster Care Closet | $3,500 |
| The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary | $2,500 |
| Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust Inc | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- EREducation Rights Counsel3× · 2023–2025 · $152k · revenue +42%
- NWNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +8%
- NJNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- WFWomen's Fund of Omahaone grant, 2024 · $15k
- OIOUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKAone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +15%
- PLPICKLEBALL LINCOLN INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -7%
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 organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…
Advocacy of policies to support Nebraskans.
For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…
We are a group of volunteer attorneys and advocates who are dedicated to fighting extremism and disinformation against educators, public officials, election officials, and members of the lgbtq community. no nebraskan deserves to be the…
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The mission of the nebraska lawyers foundation is to serve the public and the legal profession by securing contributions to support programs dedicated to the improvement of the legal profession and the administration of justice.
The mission of the nebraska state bar association (nsba) is "helping lawyers help people." the nebraska state bar association works for nebraska lawyers to help them achieve the highest standards of competence, ethics and professionalism…
We work to advance economic and financial literacy and ensure that all K-12 students have an ongoing education in economics and personal finance. To that end, we work to enhance teachers' understanding of the subject matter so they can…
Ensure every Nebraskans' voice is heard in public decision making processes, whether that is in the halls of legislative bodies or at the ballot box.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum. 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 18 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 Education Rights Counsel ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds Rewire News Group ↗
- Who funds HISTORY NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LEGAL ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OUTLINC INC OUTNEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Repro TLC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PICKLEBALL LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds PLATTE RIVER WHOOPING CRANE MAINTENANCE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM ↗
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 · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Adams RBG Empowerment Fund 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.