· Private foundation
Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| HARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB | $17,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of your 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.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- NENORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -37%
- HUHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue -11%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC2× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue -25%
Funded once
- GFGRACE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +130%
- CNCENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEXone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Assist city library
The organization's mission is to develop a collaborative and comprehensive approach to business and community growth and progress in grand island.
To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…
To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.
Support for the grand community center
To provide scholarships and support other educational initiatives of local schools
To provide shelter to lost and homeless animals, to educate the community about the humane care and treatment of all animals, to advocate animal welfare and to further the bond between people and animals.
Inspire and retain economic growth
To administer intercollegiate athletic programs for colleges and universities
The foundation's mission includes: 1. promoting marine safety through education and information about boating practices, harbors and anchorages in the great lakes; 2. protecting and preserving wilderness areas associated with cruising; 3.…
Empower women and eliminate racism through programming which includes childcare, preschool, and girls empowerment.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Grand Island Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hargis House Woman's Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 NORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
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: Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Black Benjamin a Char · Virgil Eihusen Foundation Inc · Cnh Industrial Foundation · Union Pacific 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 Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw 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.