· Private foundation
Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $46,200 |
| VALLEY HOPE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LINCOLN BOWLING ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MADONNA SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA | $5,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| KOUNTZE MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS PARALYZED VETS | $3,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +12%
- VHValley Hope Association Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
- PHPROJECT HARMONY5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UCUSBC COUNCIL BLUFFSone grant, 2021 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $21k
- NMNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +224%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…
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.
To promote corn and corn products
The specific purposes of the Foundation are to support the joint undertaking of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska and State of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, known as Nebraska Public Media through…
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)…
To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Nebraska Stealth Fastpitch Softball. 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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 98 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Valley Hope Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIBS for Kids ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE D OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH BOWLING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA WESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Seline Family Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Alan & Marcia Baer Foundation 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.