How much does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation give?

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $578,250 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (27%), Arts & Culture (7%).

Who are Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nebraska Christian Schools Inc ($670k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($263k), Nebraska Wesleyan University ($176k).

Does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nebraska Community Foundation, Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation.

Where is Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation based?

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation is based in NE.

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$578k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$270k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $578k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$926kArts & Culture$243kHealth$174kHuman Services$165kHousing & Shelter$135kRecreation & Sports$122kEnvironment$72kOther$0

02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k18 grants · $69k
$10k–50k7 grants · $147k
$50k–250k1 grant · $93k
$250k+1 grant · $270k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL	$270,000
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC	$92,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$27,000
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY	$25,000
AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP	$25,000
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$25,000
HAMILTON COUNTY RECREATION INC	$25,000
CAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	$10,000
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME	$6,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$6,000
MASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN	$6,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEBRASKA INC	$5,000
ARC OF NEBRASKA INC	$5,000
HEARTLAND UNITED WAY	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 96%.

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

-3%

Still filing today

74%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

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NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +67%
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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $263k · revenue +57%
NW
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
6× · 2018–2024 · $176k · revenue +25%

Funded once

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HAMILTON RECREATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -64%
CH
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOKgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +46%
NV
NEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +8%

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.

Memorial Community Health Inc

Providing primary healthcare services from beginning to end in order to improve lives through community health services.

Health

Nebraska Hospitality Association

To promote the restaurant industry

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Adams County Historical Society

Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.

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Nebraska Health Care Foundation

To ensure that there will be an adequate number of highly trained nurses and dietary staff to care for the residents of the state's nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

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Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation

High school sports hall of fame foundation

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Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Science & Tech

North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc

Community Improvement

Henderson Health Care Services Inc

We are a nonprofit, community based health care network whose mission is to promote professional, competent, ethical and compassionate health care in the name of christ to individuals, families and community.

Health

Nebraska Hospital Association Research and Educational Foundation

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…

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Health Center Association of Nebraska

Support the state's federally qualified health centers in providing accessible and quality health care.

Health

Nebraska Medical Foundation

To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.

Health

Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bremer Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

26/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,272,500Philanthropy$928,351Other$583,420Arts & Culture$248,270Housing & Shelter$127,000Health$121,500Human Services$112,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Nebraska Community FoundationNE34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Heuermann Family Charitable Trust · Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Dr James M Woodard and Mabel Woodard Trust

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 Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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.

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