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Cl Werner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.4MHealth$4.1MReligion$2.0MAnimals$1.8MPublic Benefit$507kFood & Nutrition$489kArts & Culture$473kHousing & Shelter$452kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $869k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION$500,000
MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION$250,000
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$250,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES$175,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$125,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$100,000
HEART MINISTRY CENTER$100,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT$100,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION$100,000
COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST$100,000
LAURITZEN GARDENS$100,000
MADONNA FOUNDATION$57,500
RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC$50,000
OMAHA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
AT EASE USA$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOTS TO WINGS: $5k → 7%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 13%CALL TO FREEDOM: $10k → 9%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE: $10k → 13%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT C: $6k → 12%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 12%WINGS OF HOPE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY-HETRA: $15k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY-HETRA: $15k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $10k → 6%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $100k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $90k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $39k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $15k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $20k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $175k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 12%NCS HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $16k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $8k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $100k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $100k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $75k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $5k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $250k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $250k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $14k → 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
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

SD
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
HI
OK
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 68 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
35

Total granted

$21M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

84%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $553k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $7.0M · revenue +70%
  • OZ
    OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.0M · 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%
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
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
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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5
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
6
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

—
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
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
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Whyarts Inc. 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

102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 134 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/102
Grantees still filing
48/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $300,000 · Education+12 more: $597,500 · 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: $225,000 · Other+65 more: $2,028,865 · Other+65 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $2,034,088 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HO…MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH INNO…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $255,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…AT EASE USA: $150,000 · Health+10 more: $370,333 · Health+10 moreOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO F…RETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $320,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING …YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $287,500 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $269,036 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $80,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Human Services+16 more: $305,320 · 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: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $20,000 · Youth Development
Education$8,516,480Other$6,031,861Health$3,809,421Animals$2,320,000Human Services$1,816,856Social Science$602,065Youth Development$360,000

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 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: $2,000,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 3y, 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 budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $500,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $320,000 over 4y, 7.3% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $287,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $269,036 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $255,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $225,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $157,320 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEDUCATE UGANDA: $150,120 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetAT EASE USA: $150,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS: $135,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $110,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $105,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $95,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $67,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC CIRCLE PLAYERS: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CASSEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $40,120 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JET AWARD FOUNDATION & TRUST: $40,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home