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Cl Werner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$9.4MHealth$4.1MReligion$2.0MAnimals$1.8MPublic Benefit$507kFood & Nutrition$489kArts & Culture$473kHousing & Shelter$452kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $767k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $775k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION$500,000
NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES$500,000
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$250,000
MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION$250,000
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND$200,000
HEART MINISTRY CENTER$100,000
COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST$100,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$100,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$75,000
COLORADO WEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$50,000
AT EASE USA$50,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$50,000
MAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS$50,000
AVENUE SCHOLARS$45,000
RISE ACADEMY$37,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $877k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 13%CALL TO FREEDOM: $10k → 9%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT C: $6k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY-HETRA: $15k → 6%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $10k → 6%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $90k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $39k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%NCS HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $8k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $75k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $5k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $250k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $75k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $38k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
HI
OK
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 47 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
28

Total granted

$18M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $7.0M · revenue +70%
  • OZ
    OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +5%
  • NL
    NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $520k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • AF
    Americans for Prosperity Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $507k · revenue -75%
  • VA
    VETERANS AMBULATORY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $495k
  • MR
    MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
2
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
3
Children's Physicians

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

Health
4
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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6
Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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7
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
8
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
9
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
10
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
11
Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports
12
Heartland Community Health Network Inc

Heartland community health network exists to support and strengthen its federally qualified health center members through collaboration, information-sharing and integration of administrative, fiscal and clinical operations.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital. 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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%13%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr18%23%35–55yr18%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%16%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr18%14%35–55yr18%16%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
10%
716/7,450

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
38/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $7,016,335 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONPope John Paul II Academy — $302,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $300,645 · Education+12 more — $612,500 · Education+12 moreARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA — $1,112,775 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHACREIGHTON INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS — $1,020,692 · OtherCREIGHTON INSTITUTE FOR ECONO…NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES — $520,000 · OtherNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MIN…VETERANS AMBULATORY CENTER — $494,900 · OtherVETERANS AMBULATORY CENTERST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCH — $379,629 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINAS CHURCHSKUTT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND — $200,000 · Other+44 more — $1,219,135 · Other+44 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC — $2,034,088 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HO…MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION — $750,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH INNO…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $130,000 · Health+9 more — $405,333 · Health+9 moreOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO…RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC — $270,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVIN…YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION — $187,500 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $169,036 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · Human Services+10 more — $140,620 · Human ServicesAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $507,065 · Social SciencePLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC — $95,000 · Social ScienceBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership 4 Kids Inc — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$8,231,480Other$5,197,131Health$3,319,421Animals$1,770,000Human Services$887,156Social Science$602,065Youth Development$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $7,016,335 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC — $2,034,088 over 5y, 18% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES — $520,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $507,065 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPope John Paul II Academy — $302,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $300,645 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC — $270,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC — $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION — $187,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $169,036 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATE UGANDA — $150,120 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAT EASE USA — $100,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetMADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $99,820 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC — $95,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS — $90,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $85,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetANGELS AMONG US — $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING — $70,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRISE ACADEMY — $37,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $37,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC — $25,120 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JET AWARD FOUNDATION & TRUST — $25,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Mutual of Omaha Found…Suzanne & Walter Scot…Leland J & Dorothy H …Nebraska Community Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…United Way of the Mid…Immanuel Community Vi…
The Lozier FoundationNE84.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Immanuel Community Vision 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 Cl Werner 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cl Werner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cl Werner 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines