· Private foundation
Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $70,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $76,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRIAM'S HOUSE LOS ANGELES | $30,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION | $8,000 |
| FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH | $3,000 |
| CEDARS HOME FO RCHILDREN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES | $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 (FY21–23, $8k) 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +42%
- PCPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION4× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +12%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SHSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +185%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -4%
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.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
Heart ministry center's mission is to provide food, healthcare, and a way forward to people severely affected by poverty in the omaha area. heart ministry center's core programs include a choice food distribution program, monen healthcare…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation. 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PEO HOME ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds 50 MILE MARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Pegler Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Abel Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Bettenhausen 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 Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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