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Assurity Life Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$488k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$139k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$664kEducation$605kHuman Services$358kHealth$177kCommunity Improvement$166kRecreation & Sports$93kArts & Culture$46kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $363k
$606
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Malone Community Center$138,600
Foundation for LPS$125,000
United Way of Lincoln & Lancaster County$98,925
Nebraska Wesleyan University$26,000
Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation$15,000
SCC Educational Foundation$12,500
NE Chamber Foundation$11,500
Cedars Home for Children Foundation$10,100
Lincoln Community Foundation$10,000
Madonna Foundation$4,000
American Heart Association$3,500
Sheldon Art Association$2,500
Tabitha Foundation$2,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters$2,000
Lincoln Rotary Club #14 Foundation$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $36k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $200 → 11%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $515 → 13%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $350 → 13%American Red Cross: $200 → 14%American Red Cross: $100 → 14%Lutheran Family Services: $500 → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE: $500 → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE: $250 → 12%Nebraska Childrens Home Society: $1k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $1k → 12%Mosaic Foundation: $500 → 12%Nebraska Children's Home Society: $500 → 12%The Mosaic Foundation: $500 → 12%MOSAIC FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%YWCA Lincoln: $6k → 13%Nebraska Childrens Home Society: $500 → 12%YWCA Lincoln: $5k → 13%Mosaic Foundation: $500 → 12%Mosaic Foundation: $500 → 12%YWCA Lincoln: $2k → 13%I've Got a Name: $100 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $70 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $20 → 13%Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $10k → 13%Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $25 → 13%Lighthouse: $3k → 13%Lighthouse: $3k → 13%Lighthouse: $100 → 13%Wellbeing Intiative: $25 → 13%Foster Care Closet: $20 → 13%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
NY
OR
SD
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
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.
$1.9M · 75 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
60

Total granted

$1.9M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • MC
    MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $290k · revenue +699%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $167k · revenue +31%
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $104k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN
    one grant, 2020 · $79k
  • BF
    Bryan Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • NS
    NE SPORTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
2
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
3
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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4
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
5
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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6
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
7
Aclu Nebraska

For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…

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8
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
9
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
10
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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11
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest

Nebraska appleseed fights for justice and opportunity for all nebraskans. we take a systemic approach to complex issues - such as child welfare, immigration policy, affordable healthcare and poverty - and we take our work wherever we…

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northstar Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. 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

103 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. 103 of the 152 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
66/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY: $492,386 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANC…Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $85,310 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation I…+8 more: $19,725 · PhilanthropyMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER: $289,558 · OtherMALONE COMMUNITY CENTERUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN: $78,822 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LINCOLNCommunity Action Partnership: $40,020 · OtherCommunity Action PartnershipNE SPORTS COUNCIL: $40,000 · OtherNE SPORTS COUNCILSCC Educational Foundation: $35,000 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $40,025 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVO…LINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+85 more: $124,863 · Other+85 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $291,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION FO…CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,120 · Arts & CultureCEDARS YOUTH SERV…MOURNING HOPE: $18,167 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $12,684 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $167,038 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $104,020 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLE…+8 more: $12,325 · EducationThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $85,070 · HealthBryan Foundation: $50,000 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INC: $15,750 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+10 more: $17,432 · HealthGREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $91,000 · Community ImprovementNEBRASKA STATE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $26,500 · Community ImprovementFoundry Community Foundation: $5,000 · Community ImprovementYWCA OF LINCOLN: $12,780 · Human ServicesTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10,125 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE: $5,100 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $3,457 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $2,755 · Human ServicesTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human Services+7 more: $2,760 · Human Services
Philanthropy$597,421Other$678,288Arts & Culture$346,971Education$283,383Health$178,252Community Improvement$122,500Human Services$42,477

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY: $492,386 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $291,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER: $289,558 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $167,038 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $104,020 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $91,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $85,310 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $85,070 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBryan Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $40,025 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE: $18,167 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC: $15,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF LINCOLN: $12,780 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $12,070 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $11,957 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $6,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPESPOKE: $5,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $5,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDANIEL KEATING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFoundry Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN ROTARY CLUB 14 FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $3,457 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE VENTURE: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $2,755 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget12 HILLS DOG RESCUE: $2,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MOSAIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,084 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $1,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA FARM SANCTUARY: $1,400 over 5y, 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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationCooper FoundationAcklie Charitable Fou…United Way of Lincoln…Rogers FoundationD F Dillon FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Bettenhausen Family F…Kinder Porter Scott F…Duncan Family TrustSpreetail Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE99.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Rogers Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Spreetail 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 Assurity Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Assurity Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    28report 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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Assurity Life Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Assurity Life 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 152 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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