· Private foundation
Bettenhausen Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $61,100 |
| BEREAN CHURCH | $24,000 |
| THE 1890 FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| CITY IMPACT | $10,000 |
| UNL FOUNDATION | $7,300 |
| LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PREGNANCY CENTER | $6,000 |
| THE GARDEN FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| HAINES CHRISTIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION | $3,500 |
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO | $3,000 |
| THE HOPE VENTURE | $3,000 |
| NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| PANAMA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
68 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 12 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LCLINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/20258× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +42%
- PCPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +55%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- FRFIRTH RURAL FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LLLIVING LIFE REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LCLINCOLN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes; the foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of christ lincoln church in lincoln, nebraska (a nebraska non-profit religious corporation).
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Community development in lincoln, ne
To promote credit unions in nebraska
To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
Community foundation for the land of lincoln connects people who care with causes that matter.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Police Union Memorial Fund Inc. 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 37 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 161 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 Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HOPE VENTURE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds STONECROFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLELINK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Rogers Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Abel Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Spreetail Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Acklie 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 Bettenhausen Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.