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Bettenhausen Family Foundation at a glance

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Bettenhausen Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$229k
Granted FY2026still arriving
30
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$375kReligion$277kEducation$154kYouth Development$88kHealth$48kArts & Culture$43kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$36kOther$0
02FY2026 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k26 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $132k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$908k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNL FOUNDATION$72,000
LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,080
BEREAN CHURCH$24,000
NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,500
PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$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
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,500
NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE$2,500
WOMEN INVESTING IN NEBRASKA$2,400
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–26, $17k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $250 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $100 → 8%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: $1k → 13%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: $1k → 13%LINCOLN CITIZEN ADVOCACY: $100 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $1k → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $500 → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $2k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $1k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $600 → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $600 → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 13%JACOB'S WELL: $250 → 13%JACOB'S WELL: $250 → 13%JACOB'S WELL: $250 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$892k · 69 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2026, 44 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
85

Total granted

$892k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

61%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LC
    LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025
    9× · 2017–2026 · $84k · revenue +42%
  • PC
    PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION
    10× · 2017–2026 · $31k · revenue +55%
  • PC
    PREGNANCY CENTER INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $26k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FR
    FIRTH RURAL FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • T1
    THE 1890 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $22k
  • LL
    LIVING LIFE REFORMED CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

1
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
2
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
4
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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5
The Christ Lutheran Foundation

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).

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6
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
7
Lutheran Family Services Foundation Inc

To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.

Human Services
8
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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9
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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10
Aclu Nebraska

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,…

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11
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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12
Union College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 163 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
48/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEREAN CHURCH: $214,940 · OtherBEREAN CHURCHUNL FOUNDATION: $128,900 · OtherUNL FOUNDATIONHAINES CHRISTIAN CENTER: $40,300 · OtherHAINES CHRISTIAN CENTERFIRTH RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $25,000 · Other+119 more: $305,985 · Other+119 moreLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $384,430 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation IncNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+6 more: $20,350 · PhilanthropyLINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025: $83,500 · EducationBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $9,850 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $8,400 · Education+4 more: $250 · EducationCITY IMPACT: $52,700 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $26,100 · HealthBryan Foundation: $6,400 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $2,250 · HealthOVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Health+7 more: $2,320 · HealthPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $31,300 · Housing & ShelterLIGHTHOUSE: $8,750 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $8,325 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $4,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,000 · Human Services+6 more: $1,450 · Human Services
Other$715,125Philanthropy$444,780Education$102,000Community Improvement$62,700Health$41,570Housing & Shelter$31,300Human Services$25,025

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $384,430 over 10y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025: $83,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCITY IMPACT: $52,700 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $31,300 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER INC: $26,100 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $17,100 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC: $16,010 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE VENTURE: $13,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC: $12,250 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC OF NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $9,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $8,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $8,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $8,325 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE: $8,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTONECROFT MINISTRIES INC: $7,580 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $7,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLELINK: $7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBryan Foundation: $6,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $4,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $4,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $4,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Sonshine: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMANTHA LANDY MINISTRIES: $2,950 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOVERFLOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuo Ministries: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWLARK MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILIES: $750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTabitha Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB'S WELL: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds HOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC OF NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
  • 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 STONECROFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLELINK ↗
  • Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Assurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationRogers FoundationD F Dillon FoundationAbel FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…Spreetail FoundationKinder Porter Scott F…James Stuart III Fami…Jc & Jessie Seacrest …Acklie Charitable Fou…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE89.6× affinity44 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 · 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

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 Bettenhausen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bettenhausen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home