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Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund

Support the Omaha Community Foundation's Mission.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$9.0MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MYouth Development$754kCommunity Improvement$734kHealth$358kCivil Rights$325kCrime & Legal$270kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 45 grants below total $3,180,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,301,490 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $544k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$39,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Joslyn Art Museum$1,100,000
Ashland Area Foundation$250,000
Community Information Trust$125,000
Boys & Girls Club Midlands$110,000
Omaha Conservatory of Music$100,000
Opera Omaha$100,000
Downtown Riverfront Trust$100,000
Omaha Botanical Center Inc$80,000
Great Plains Theatre Commons$75,000
Nebraska Public Media Fdn Inc$75,000
United States Artists Inc$65,000
University of Nebraska Fdn$65,000
Hot Shops Art Foundation$65,000
Omaha Symphony Association$61,000
Bemis Center for Contemp Art$60,690
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Matters On Tomorrow: $25k → 13%Kids Can Community Center: $13k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $13k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $35k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $35k → 12%CIRA Center for ImmigrantRef: $20k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $15k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $15k → 12%Childrens Respite Care Cntr: $11k → 12%Lending Link: $50k → 12%Heartland Workers Center: $15k → 12%Heartland Workers Center: $15k → 12%Common Senses: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 49 repeat orgs$652k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
16

Total granted

$14M
$398k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

98%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +71%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +17%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $506k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $190k · revenue -53%
  • EE
    Economic Empowerment Center
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -57%
  • MO
    MATTERS ON TOMORROWgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +29%

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

04Your field

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.

1
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
2
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.

—
3
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
4
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

—
5
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
6
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

—
7
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
8
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

—
9
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services
11
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

—
12
Lincoln Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ashland Greenwood Public Schools Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr17%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr17%50%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
11%
388/3,485

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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 73 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
42/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $5,519,600 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUMOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $605,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSICOPERA OMAHA INC — $425,000 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $383,690 · Arts & CultureGREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS — $350,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $1,181,250 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY — $600,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST — $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $115,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST — $75,000 · EducationAMPLIFY ARTS — $60,000 · EducationASHLAND AREA FOUNDATION — $750,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $168,000 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community Foundation — $73,500 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $40,000 · PhilanthropyBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS — $222,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG S…FILM STREAMS INC — $203,800 · OtherFILM STREAMS INCNEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE — $190,000 · OtherNEBRASKA EARLY CHI…HOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION — $170,000 · OtherHOT SHOPS ART FOUN…ACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 · OtherJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA — $120,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $217,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANI…CIVIC NEBRASKA — $175,000 · OtherCIVIC NEBRASKANEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST — $92,500 · OtherPROJECT HARMONY — $100,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $80,000 · OtherRABBLE MILL — $80,000 · Other+21 more — $578,000 · Other+21 moreDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST — $500,000 · Community ImprovementSPARK — $125,000 · Community ImprovementNEBRASKA STARTUP ACADEMY — $39,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS — $35,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $20,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $506,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE REHABILITATION SERVICES — $350,000 · Health+2 more — $13,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$8,464,540Education$1,100,000Philanthropy$1,081,500Other$2,344,300Community Improvement$719,000Youth Development$531,000Health$363,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $5,519,600 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetASHLAND AREA FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $605,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY — $600,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $506,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST — $500,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC — $425,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $383,690 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE REHABILITATION SERVICES — $350,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS — $350,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $255,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST — $250,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS — $222,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC — $217,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC — $203,800 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetNEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE — $190,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $180,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA — $175,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $168,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPARK — $125,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA — $120,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $108,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST — $92,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $80,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $80,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRABBLE MILL — $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation — $73,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNO MORE EMPTY POTS — $65,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetROAM SHARE — $61,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAMPLIFY ARTS — $60,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHISTORIC ARNOLDS PARK INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE — $57,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetKANEKO — $53,250 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum — $52,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEconomic Empowerment Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRISE ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationWeitz Family Foundati…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Holland FoundationLincoln Community Fou…The Hawks FoundationThe Fred and Eve Simo…The Charles and Mary …Nebraska Community Fo…Union Pacific Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE107.9× affinity53 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 · Weitz Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Hawks Foundation · The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation

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 Annette and Paul Smith Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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