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Burlington Capital Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$304k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MEducation$525kHealth$182kArts & Culture$154kEmployment$150kCommunity Improvement$54kCrime & Legal$51kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION$10,000
LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST$10,000
EDUCATION RIGHTS COUNSEL$7,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION$5,000
HEART MINISTRY CENTER$5,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$5,000
NE LAND TRUST$5,000
RESTORING DIGNITY$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOVING VETERANS FORWARD: $3k → 6%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $3k → 12%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $3k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $5k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $5k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $3k → 12%INCOMMON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 12%REFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $1k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
IA
OH
PA
CA
NE
VA
TN
SC
OK
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 33 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
73

Total granted

$2.6M
$458k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • P4
    Partnership 4 Kids Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $389k · revenue +49%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +70%
  • PH
    PROJECT HARMONY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • ND
    Nebraska Defense Research Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +225%
  • OD
    OMAHA DOUGLAS PUBLIC BUILDING COMMISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
3
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

—
4
Omaha 100

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Omaha ForUs Inc

Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.

Human Services
6
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
7
North Omaha Collective

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.

Human Services
8
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

—
9
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc

Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.

Human Services
10
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
11
Omaha Botanical Center Inc

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

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 120 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/75
Grantees still filing
51/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEBRASKA MULTI SPORTS COMPLEX: $400,000 · OtherNEBRASKA MULTI SPORTS COMPLEXCONSORTIUM OF DEMENTIA ALTERNATIVES: $120,000 · OtherCONSORTIUM OF DEMENTIA ALTERNATIVESNEBRASKA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CO UNITED WAY: $90,000 · OtherNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (UNO SOFTBALL FIELD): $80,000 · Other+81 more: $572,066 · Other+81 moreOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $545,000 · Recreation & SportsOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOU…+1 more: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $389,011 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership 4 …+5 more: $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationNebraska Defense Research Corporation: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $21,500 · EducationKANEKO: $27,500 · Arts & CultureOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL: $10,125 · Arts & CultureOPERA OMAHA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAPPLIED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEL MUSEO LATINO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's Museum: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureOmaha Community Foundation: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyLA VISTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,750 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HARMONY: $41,000 · Crime & LegalEducation Rights Counsel: $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,762,066Recreation & Sports$558,000Youth Development$407,511Education$171,500Arts & Culture$86,125Philanthropy$53,750Crime & Legal$48,500

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 budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $545,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $389,011 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Defense Research Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $41,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKANEKO: $27,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSHELTERING TREE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $15,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION: $13,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRESTORING DIGNITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL: $10,125 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSYMPHONY WORKFORCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUEPRINT NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEducation Rights Counsel: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAPPLIED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JET AWARD FOUNDATION & TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITY LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA VISTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Visions Homeless Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDERS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Education Rights Counsel ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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 FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…The Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Holland FoundationGilbert M and Martha …Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Hawks FoundationMutual of Omaha Found…Mammel Family Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE85.7× affinity42 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 · 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

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 Burlington Capital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Burlington Capital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Burlington Capital Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Burlington Capital 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 120 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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