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Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc

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.

$853k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$948kInternational$575kAnimals$463kArts & Culture$418kRecreation & Sports$328kHealth$255kReligion$209kEducation$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$80,000
DICKINSON COUNTY HUNGER COALITION$75,000
SAMARITANS'S PURSE$50,000
MERCY SHIPS$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST IOWA$40,000
NEW CASSEL FOUNDATION$30,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
OPERATION SMILE$30,000
SALVATION ARMY OF OMAHA - WESTERN DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS$30,000
TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION$30,000
AMERICAN INDIAN MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$25,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ICAN INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK$20,000
PRE-BORN$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $25k → 10%PRE-BORN: $20k → 16%CAMP FOSTER YMCA: $25k → 7%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%CHERISH CENTER: $20k → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $20k → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $20k → 7%CHERISH CENTER: $5k → 7%BETHANY FIRST STEPS: $10k → 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

WA
ND
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
CA
NE
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 34 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
39

Total granted

$2.7M
$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+1%

Still filing today

59%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +83%
  • NC
    NEW CASSEL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +152%
  • Mercy Ships International
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • IN
    IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +53%
  • PD
    PROJECT DYNAMO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -82%
  • TW
    THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%
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
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
2
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
3
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
4
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
5
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
6
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
7
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…

Health
8
Mercy Medical Center - Newton

We, mercy medical center - newton and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy medical center - newton is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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10
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center

To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Project Dynamo Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 90 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $515,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYDICKINSON COUNTY HUNGER COALITION: $125,000 · OtherDICKINSON COUNTY HUNGER COALITIONFILM STREAMS INC: $100,000 · OtherSPIRIT LAKE YOUTH ATHLETICS: $100,000 · OtherVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · OtherARNOLD'S PARK AMUSEMENT PARK: $80,000 · Other+63 more: $1,335,977 · Other+63 moreNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $115,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA …EMMET COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $90,000 · AnimalsEMMET COU…HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST IOWA: $80,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SO…KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $45,000 · AnimalsKEARNEY A…+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $315,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…Mercy Ships International: $120,000 · InternationalPROJECT DYNAMO INC: $100,000 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $70,000 · InternationalTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureKANEKO: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET NEBRASKA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA OMAHA INC: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $25,250 · Arts & CultureNEW CASSEL FOUNDATION: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Environment
Other$2,335,977Animals$332,500Religion$315,000International$290,000Arts & Culture$283,250Housing & Shelter$190,000Environment$150,000

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $315,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CASSEL FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercy Ships International: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT DYNAMO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEMMET COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $90,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST IOWA: $80,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHERISH CENTER: $65,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKANEKO: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $45,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RESCUE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHAYLA BEE FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALLET NEBRASKA: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUPPER DES MOINES OPPORTUNITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKES REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBETHANY FIRST STEPS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $8,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHEART INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BADGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA ACADEMY OF BALLET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NEW CASSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT DYNAMO INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMMET COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST IOWA ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERISH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KANEKO ↗
  • Who funds KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗

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.

Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…The Holland FoundationThe Lozier FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…The Fred and Eve Simo…John K & Lynne D Boye…Nac Development Corpo…The Charles and Mary …Annette and Paul Smit…Gilbert M and Martha …Jewish Federation of …
Robert B Daugherty FoundationNE34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Nac Development Corporation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha 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 Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Anne Thorne Weaver Family Foundation Inc 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 90 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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