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Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation at a glance

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Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$239kHealth$227kArts & Culture$81kRecreation & Sports$62kReligion$48kFood & Nutrition$42kHousing & Shelter$36kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$46,200
VALLEY HOPE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$20,000
LINCOLN BOWLING ASSOCIATION$15,000
MADONNA SCHOOL$10,000
MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CHRIST THE KING CHURCH$10,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA$5,000
NEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP$5,000
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$5,000
PROJECT HARMONY$5,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE$5,000
DURHAM MUSEUM$5,000
OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN$5,000
KOUNTZE MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$4,000
GREAT PLAINS PARALYZED VETS$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOVING VETERANS FORWARD: $5k → 6%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISSTANCE: $2k → 13%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $2k → 12%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5k → 12%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5k → 12%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5k → 12%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5k → 12%CHARIOTS 4 HOPE: $2k → 12%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $1k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $3k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
CA
NE
MO
KS
NC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 62 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
26

Total granted

$798k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

47%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +12%
  • VH
    Valley Hope Association Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • PH
    PROJECT HARMONY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • UC
    USBC COUNCIL BLUFFS
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • NM
    NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +224%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
3
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
4
Nebraska Votes

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.

Civil Rights
5
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
6
Nebraska Bankers Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…

Employment
7
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
8
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

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9
Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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10
Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc

The specific purposes of the Foundation are to support the joint undertaking of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska and State of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, known as Nebraska Public Media through…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Nebraska Hospital Association Research and Educational Foundation

To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Nebraska Stealth Fastpitch Softball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 98 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONVNA: $32,500 · OtherVNACHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $32,500 · OtherCHRIST THE KING CHURCHFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $30,500 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDUSBC COUNCIL BLUFFS: $30,000 · OtherUSBC COUNCIL BLUFFSLINCOLN BOWLING ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER: $21,000 · OtherLEAP FOR A CURE: $20,000 · Other+57 more: $271,308 · Other+57 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $134,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA…DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYDIBS for Kids: $11,500 · EducationDIBS for KidsALLIANCE FRANCAISE D OMAHA INC: $10,000 · EducationALLIANCE FRANCAISE D O…IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Education+2 more: $6,500 · EducationValley Hope Association Foundation: $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · HealthNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $21,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOVING VETERANS FORWARD: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $2,000 · Human ServicesGRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureKANEKO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBlue Barn Theatre: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HARMONY: $25,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $1,500 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRABBLE MILL: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsNEBRASKA STEALTH FASTPITCH SOFTBALL: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsGREATER ATLANTA USBC ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$527,808Education$182,800Health$63,500Human Services$53,500Arts & Culture$40,000Crime & Legal$26,500Recreation & Sports$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $134,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $30,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetValley Hope Association Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIBS for Kids: $11,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE D OMAHA INC: $10,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANEKO: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA DACHSHUND RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S NEBRASKA: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STEALTH FASTPITCH SOFTBALL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHARIOTS4HOPE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBallard vs The Big C: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLIED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Central Missouri Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds Valley Hope Association Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DIBS for Kids ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE D OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…The Holland FoundationMutual of Omaha Found…Seline Family Foundat…Burlington Capital Fo…Leland J & Dorothy H …
The Lozier FoundationNE52.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Seline Family Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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