· Private foundation
Bill and Elaine Biggs Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARBOR MINISTRIES INC | $70,000 |
| GLOBAL ASSIST | $35,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $30,000 |
| HOPE VENTURE | $20,000 |
| HARTLAND BIBLE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| DARE2SHARE MINISTRIES INTL | $10,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $10,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| COUNTRY BIBLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $4,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $4,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $3,394 |
| ANTIOCH NETWORK | $2,000 |
| NETWORK MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- HMHARBOR MINISTRIES INC4× · 2017–2021 · $263k · revenue +105%
- HVHOPE VENTURE2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +242%
- CECHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC2× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CCBMCone grant, 2020 · $18k
- CCCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -26%
- CMCAPITOL MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Dualreach furthers the worldwide efforts of the christian church by partnering with other ministries & churches in evangelism ministries.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Bring connection to churches for ministry and education in local and global mission
Harvest evangelism was established for the purpose of evangelism and pastoral training internationaly
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is The Ranch Ministires. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 HARBOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VENTURE ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ASSIST ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Dare 2 Share Ministries ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Middle East Ministries ↗
- Who funds CORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SYNC WITH GOD ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds THE RANCH MINISTIRES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
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 · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bill and Elaine Biggs 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.
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.