· Private foundation
Backer Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| WEST HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SPCCTF MOZAIK PROJECT-JIM AND RENATE BULTEMA & JOE & SUE SAUNDERS-ROBB | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL HOPE NETWORK | $20,000 |
| ASCENT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $18,000 |
| FOR HIS CHILDREN | $12,866 |
| LUIS PALAU ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| JOSIE HARPER HOSPICE HOUSE | $12,000 |
| REAL LIFE CHURCH | $11,000 |
| CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAINS MOVE | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE OPPD | $10,000 |
| EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSN | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +42%
- SHSpecial Hope Network4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
- LPLuis Palau Association6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- JAJOE AND SUE SAUNDERS-ROBB CO RELIANTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TNTHE NAVIGATORSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
To communicate the life changing message of jesus christ to every young person, giving them the opportunity to make an informed decision to become a follower of jesus christ.
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.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Hope Network ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds YATES FUND ↗
- Who funds SCV PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOR HIS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINS MOVE ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Walter Scott Family Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · The Rebensdorf Family 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 Backer Family Charitable Trust 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.
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.