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Bluestem Prairie 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.
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 $10k34 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Omaha Douglas Public Building Commi | $83,340 |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 |
| Ollie Webb Center | $10,000 |
| Film Streams | $5,000 |
| Omaha Public Library | $5,000 |
| Foodbank For The Heartland | $5,000 |
| Learning for All | $4,000 |
| Take Flight Farms | $3,000 |
| Joslyn Castle Trust | $3,000 |
| Nebraska Appleseed | $2,500 |
| ACLU Foundation | $2,000 |
| Lauritzen Gardens | $2,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy Nebraska | $1,000 |
| Wounded Warriors | $1,000 |
| Durham Museum | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
55 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- OWOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +3%
- JCJOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +99%
- LFLEARNING FOR ALL7× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
- AACLUone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NHNE High School Track Scholarshipone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
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…
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
The omaha community playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, community involvement, and arts education. we are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through…
The omaha zoological society's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.
The luminarium opened in april 2023 with more than 125 interactive exhibits and a kaleidoscope of engaging programs focused on science, art, and human perception. the luminarium is an innovative community space and learning environment…
The mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to enrich the community through presentation of the highest quality arts and entertainment experiences; education and community engagement programs; and stewardship of three world-class venues - the…
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.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 67 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 FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OLLIE WEBB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Giving 3 Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · The Hawks 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 Bluestem Prairie 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.
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