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Bruce E & Debra K Grewcock Foundation at a glance

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Bruce E & Debra K 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$647kAnimals$601kEmployment$145kHealth$57kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$18kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADONNA SCHOOL$100,000
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION$45,000
NEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB$10,000
YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $1k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$1.4M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    6× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +17%
  • VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +16%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +308%
  • AF
    ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TR
    THE ROSE THEATER - PERFORMING ARTS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy
4
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
5
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
6
University of Nebraska Foundation

The university of nebraska foundation grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.

Education
7
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
8
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…

Health
9
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota State Fair Foundation

The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.

Philanthropy
11
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
12
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADONNA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES: $646,500 · OtherMADONNA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES+11 more: $60,700 · Other+11 moreNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $535,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETYOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $55,250 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $145,000 · EmploymentVETERANS O…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · PhilanthropyYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,250 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$707,200Animals$600,250Employment$145,000Health$37,000Philanthropy$17,750Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $535,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $55,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKICKS FOR A CURE INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationThe Charles and Mary …The Fred and Sally Be…Kenneth (Kim) & Karen…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Union Pacific Foundat…Lincoln Financial Fou…Ike & Roz Friedman Fo…Seline Family Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · Seline Family 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 Bruce E & Debra K Grewcock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce E & Debra K Grewcock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bruce E & Debra K Grewcock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bruce E & Debra K 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 26 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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