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Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation at a glance

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Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$10MAnimals$6.1MCivil Rights$1.5MEducation$1.4MEnvironment$850kRecreation & Sports$250kSocial Science$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION FUSION$250,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CONSERVATION FUSION: $250k → 6%NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $100k → 9%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $500k → 12%NEBRASKA GAME & PARKS FOUNDATION: $500k → 13%LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSN OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA: $300k → 13%MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA: $70k → 9%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100k → 14%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 6%BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 6%NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $50k → 9%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $200k → 12%NEBRASKA GAME & PARKS FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%LUTHERAN HIGH NORTHEAST: $150k → 13%MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA: $1k → 9%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50k → 14%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSN OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA: $100k → 13%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%LUTHERAN HIGH NORTHEAST: $100k → 13%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $100k → 12%OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50k → 12%OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50k → 12%PLATTE INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50k → 12%PLATTE INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $50k → 12%PLATTE INSTITUTE: $5k → 12%OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $10.0M → 12%JDRF NEBRASKA: $10k → 12%LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $250k → 12%CONCORDIA JRSR HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 12%OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $5.0M → 12%OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%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.
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 9 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$7.9M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+67%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • NH
    NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • OC
    OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • LH
    LUTHERAN HIGH NORTHEAST
    2× · 2018–2020 · $250k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • OD
    OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10M · revenue -91%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +67%
  • LC
    LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -90%
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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3
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education
4
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
5
Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation

The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.

Arts & Culture
6
Omaha Parks Foundation

The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…

Environment
7
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
8
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
9
Omaha Botanical Center Inc

We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.

Environment
10
Hastings Museum

The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.

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11
Museum of Nebraska Art

The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…

Arts & Culture
12
Nebraska Bankers Association Foundation

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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $10,000,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST+4 more: $700,000 · Education+4 moreOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $5,100,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETYYoung America's Foundation: $1,500,000 · OtherYoung Americ…LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSN OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA: $400,000 · OtherLUTHERAN HIG…OMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $300,000 · OtherOMAHA CHRIST…+3 more: $45,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FUSION INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $250,000 · EnvironmentTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $71,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$10,700,000Animals$6,100,000Other$2,245,000Environment$1,100,000Arts & Culture$71,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $10,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $5,100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetOMAHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $300,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLUTHERAN HIGH NORTHEAST: $250,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetBellevue University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $71,000 over 2y, 4.6% 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.

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.

Robert B Daugherty Fo…John K & Lynne D Boye…The Ethel S Abbott Ch…The Holland FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Robert B Daugherty FoundationNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bill and Berniece Grewcock Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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