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Burlington Capital Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP 4 KIDS | $51,349 |
| NEBRASKA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CO UNITED WAY | $45,000 |
| CONSORTIUM OF DEMENTIA ALTERNATIVES | $20,000 |
| LINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL | $10,125 |
| LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST | $10,000 |
| OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION RIGHTS COUNSEL | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RESTORING DIGNITY | $5,000 |
| NE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION (HOLIDAY LIGHTS FESTIVAL) | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- P4Partnership 4 Kids Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $389k · revenue +49%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +70%
- PHPROJECT HARMONY5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ODOMAHA DOUGLAS PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NDNebraska Defense Research Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +225%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
Our mission is to provide ownership opportunities through public and private partnerships, financing, and technical assistance. by working collaboratively, we aim to expand access to capital in underserved communities, empowering…
Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
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…
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Culxr House Oma. 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 120 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 OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Partnership 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Defense Research Corporation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds TAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY WORKFORCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Education Rights Counsel ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA ↗
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 Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Mammel Family 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 Burlington Capital 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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