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American Charitable Foundation at a glance

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American Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$148kHuman Services$147kFood & Nutrition$105kEducation$51kYouth Development$48kHealth$32kPhilanthropy$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREIGHTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE HOMELESS SHELTER$7,500
OPEN DOOR MISSION$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BRIGHT LIGHTS$5,000
LAURITZEN GARDEN$5,000
FOOD BANK OF THE HEARTLAND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FRESH HOPE$5,000
SHELTERING TREE$5,000
FULLERTON FUTURE INC$5,000
CLARINDA IA FOOD BANK$2,000
GENOA FOOD PANTRY$1,900
FULLERTON FOOD PANTRY$1,900
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 (FY17–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FULLERTON FUTURE INC: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER AINSWORTH NE: $2k → 12%BRIGGS AND BARRETT PROJECT: $10k → 13%BRIGGS AND BARRETT PROJECT: $2k → 13%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $5k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%THE DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%THE DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%THE DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 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.
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$374k · 17 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
40

Total granted

$374k
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
-6%

Still filing today

76%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND
    7× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +136%
  • SF
    SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +36%
  • DF
    DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +390%

Funded once

  • WP
    WEALTH PLAN CARES
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • RA
    RANDOLPH AREA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • BH
    BRYANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
2
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
3
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
4
Heartland Community Health Network Inc

Heartland community health network exists to support and strengthen its federally qualified health center members through collaboration, information-sharing and integration of administrative, fiscal and clinical operations.

Health
5
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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7
New Community Development Corporation

Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

Housing & Shelter
8
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
9
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
10
Prairie Harvest Mental Health

We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.

Human Services
11
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
12
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Randolph Area Foundation. 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

27 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. 27 of the 66 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)
26/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $52,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDWEALTH PLAN CARES: $30,000 · OtherWEALTH PLAN CARESCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESCREIGHTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $19,000 · OtherCREIGHTON PREPARATORY SCHOOLCLARINDA IA FOOD BANK: $11,000 · Other+40 more: $175,300 · Other+40 moreOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $45,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A…DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATIONCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE …Briggs & Barrett Project: $12,000 · Human ServicesBriggs & Barrett Projec…HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVIC…Fullertons Future Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $47,500 · Housing & ShelterSIENA FRANCIS HOU…STEPHEN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN CENTER IN…SHELTERING TREE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERING TREE I…THREE RIVERS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CO: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHREE RIVERS HOUS…HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $10,000 · EducationPLAY FOR PAIGE 33: $7,000 · EducationNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,100 · EducationCreighton University: $5,000 · EducationFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRESH HOPE INC: $5,000 · HealthCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$312,300Human Services$129,000Housing & Shelter$92,500Youth Development$29,500Education$27,100Public Safety & Disaster$15,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $47,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSHELTERING TREE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBriggs & Barrett Project: $12,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY FOR PAIGE 33: $7,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE RIVERS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFullertons Future Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFRESH HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds Briggs & Barrett Project ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH AREA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PAIGE 33 ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THREE RIVERS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds Fullertons Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA AGAINST HUNGER ↗

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 Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationNebraska Community Fo…The Charles and Mary …Immanuel Community Vi…Todd and Mary Heistan…Mutual of Omaha Found…The Hawks FoundationLeland J & Dorothy H …Kim FoundationSuzanne & Walter Scot…United Way of the Mid…
The Sherwood FoundationNE25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Kim Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands

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 American Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Charitable 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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