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Amy L Scott Family Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services

$765k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$1.2MEnvironment$555kHuman Services$502kYouth Development$350kPhilanthropy$318kArts & Culture$297kRecreation & Sports$226kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $698,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $764,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $418k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$119,500
NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$75,000
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION$70,000
XANDER COMMUNITY$45,700
KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
COMPLETELY KIDS$30,000
HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY$30,000
FONTENELLE FOREST$30,000
NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY$25,000
OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION$25,000
DIBS FOR KIDS$25,000
OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$25,000
CUES$15,000
SHELTERING TREE INC$15,000
LAURITZEN GARDENS$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 12%XANDER COMMUNITY: $46k → 11%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $35k → 6%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $30k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $25k → 6%FOSTER HEART AND HOPE: $10k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $25k → 6%FOSTER CARE CLOSET: $15k → 13%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $40k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $40k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 12%FOSTER LOVE INCORPORATION: $25k → 12%Grief's Journey: $15k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $25k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $15k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $30k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 38 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
23

Total granted

$5.0M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+11%

Still filing today

97%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    4× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +1%
  • OB
    Omaha Botanical Center Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $339k · revenue +70%
  • NM
    NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • YE
    YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +106%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
5
Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports
6
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

—
7
Omaha Parks Foundation

The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…

Environment
8
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
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.

—
11
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
12
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. 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

65 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. 65 of the 68 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
41/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $837,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & ME…NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPI…A TIME TO HEAL INC: $80,000 · HealthA TIME TO HEAL INCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Health+2 more: $42,500 · HealthDONORSCHOOSEORG: $535,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $138,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRAS…DIBS for Kids: $130,000 · EducationDIBS for KidsUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $95,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $46,000 · Education+4 more: $71,500 · Education+4 moreFort Calhoun Community School Foundation: $330,500 · OtherFort Calhoun Community School Founda…FONTENELLE FOREST: $210,000 · OtherFONTENELLE FORESTOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $108,000 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $66,000 · OtherNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $170,000 · OtherNORTHSTAR FOUNDATIONCOMPLETELY KIDS: $70,000 · OtherPONCA HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $183,777 · OtherPONCA HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $90,000 · OtherSHELTERING TREE INC: $75,000 · OtherOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $90,375 · Other+22 more: $412,500 · Other+22 moreHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND …THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE OMAHA …KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN C…NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA C…XANDER COMMUNITY: $45,700 · Human ServicesXANDER COM…FOSTER HEART & HOPE: $35,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER HEA…YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMER…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $25,000 · Human ServicesDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human Services+2 moreOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $338,500 · EnvironmentOmaha Bota…LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $176,000 · EnvironmentLAKE CUNNI…THE DURHAM MUSEUM: $193,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $25,500 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's Museum: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKIM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOmaha Community Foundation: $187,750 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Philanthropy
Health$1,245,000Education$1,015,500Other$1,806,152Human Services$520,700Environment$514,500Arts & Culture$286,500Philanthropy$282,750

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $837,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $535,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $338,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFort Calhoun Community School Foundation: $330,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $210,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $193,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $187,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPONCA HILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $183,777 over 7y, 83% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $176,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $138,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIBS for Kids: $130,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $115,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $108,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $90,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetA TIME TO HEAL INC: $80,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetSHELTERING TREE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetXANDER COMMUNITY: $45,700 over 1y, 35% of budgetWHISPERING ROOTS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFOSTER HEART & HOPE: $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP LINCOLN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY RESOURCE CONNECTOR NETWORK (FKA BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES): $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTYROME WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKIM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOTRE DAME HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCUES FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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…The Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Parker Family Foundat…The Holland FoundationSuzanne & Walter Scot…Leland J & Dorothy H …Dixon Family Foundati…The Charles and Mary …Weitz Family Foundati…Gilbert M and Martha …
The Lozier FoundationNE84.1× affinity39 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 · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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 Amy L Scott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy L Scott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Amy L Scott Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amy L Scott Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 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 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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