How much did BETTENHAUSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BETTENHAUSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 51 grants

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

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
HAINES CHRISTIAN CENTER$5,000
THE GARDEN FELLOWSHIP$5,000
PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION$3,500
LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO$3,000
THE HOPE VENTURE$3,000
PANAMA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 70 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+49%

Still filing today

44%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% 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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

LC
LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $322k · revenue +107%
LC
LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +42%
PC
PEOPLES CITY MISSION
8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +55%

Funded once

FR
FIRTH RURAL FIRE DISTRICT
one grant, 2023 · $25k
LL
LIVING LIFE REFORMED CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $5k
LC
LINCOLN CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Health Foundation

Health

Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Promote alumni support for the university of nebraska - lincoln by engaging its students, alumni, and friends.

Education

Rural Land Foundation of Lincoln

The preservation of the natural beauties and rural character of the town of lincoln, ma through land conservation and the protection of open space.

Environment

Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Improving the quality of life through excellence in healthcare.

Health

Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

Luther College

On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…

Education

Lincoln County Medical Center

Health

Lincoln Economic Development Associ

To foster an economic environment that promotes an enhancement of the standard of living by creating more and better jobs for the citizens of lincolnton and lincoln county and an increased and diversified tax base to proivde needed…

Community Improvement

Lincoln Community Playhouse

The mission of the lincoln community playhouse is to create and promote quality theatrical experiences that meet the needs of the lincoln area. the playhouse achieves it's mission by providing opportunities for the participation by…

Arts & Culture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

To sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture

Nebraska State Bar Foundation

See schedule o to serve the citizens of nebraska and the legal profession through the administration and funding of innovative and creative programs directed toward the improvement of the administration of justice and the fulfillment of…

Crime & Legal

The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth

See schedule o.the lincoln center for family and youth ("tlc") is a social enterprise company serving the greater philadelphia area. founded in 1970 by a behavioral health hospital, tlc is an entrepreneurial nonprofit providing innovative…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Parks and Recreation Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/59

the rest of the field

925/14,053

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.

05the grantee network

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/51

Grantees still filing

38/51

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$575,330Philanthropy$346,300Education$68,250Community Improvement$54,600Health$25,250Housing & Shelter$24,100Human Services$18,100

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.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE77.8× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 470706907 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 22 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bettenhausen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bettenhausen Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BETTENHAUSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bettenhausen Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BETTENHAUSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

51 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bettenhausen Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph