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Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw at a glance

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Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$88kPhilanthropy$35kRecreation & Sports$30kHealth$20kArts & Culture$18kHousing & Shelter$9kYouth Development$9kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$764k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC$25,000
NORTHWEST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 11%NORTHWEST EDUCATIONAL FDN: $25k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $4k → 13%THE GRACE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%CROSSROADS CENTER: $4k → 11%NORTHWEST EDUCATIONAL FDN: $25k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $3k → 13%HARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB: $18k → 12%GRAND ISLAND YMCA: $6k → 12%GRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 12%LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND: $5k → 12%YOUTH PHILANTHROPY BOARD: $3k → 12%HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC: $3k → 12%GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%NORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%NORTHWEST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 12%CENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEX: $15k → 12%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $10k → 12%GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY: $5k → 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.
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 3 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$87k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
0%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NE
    NORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2026 · $65k · revenue -37%
  • HU
    HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue -11%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue -25%

Funded once

  • GF
    GRACE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • HH
    HARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB
    one grant, 2025 · $18k
  • NP
    NORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $18k
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
Grand Island Public Library Foundation

Assist city library

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2
Grow Grand Island Inc

The organization's mission is to develop a collaborative and comprehensive approach to business and community growth and progress in grand island.

Community Improvement
3
Central Nebraska Growth Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
4
Grand Island Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.

—
5
College Park At Grand Island
Education
6
Grand Heritage Foundation Inc

Support for the grand community center

Recreation & Sports
7
Grand Island Young Women's Christian Association

Empower women and eliminate racism through programming which includes childcare, preschool, and girls empowerment.

Human Services
8
Great Lakes Foundation

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.…

Education
9
Grand Haven Schools Foundation

To provide scholarships and support other educational initiatives of local schools

Education
10
Grosse Pointe Library Foundation

To promote educational and literacy purposes of the grosse pointe public library by soliciting and administering funds.

Education
11
Grand Island Public Schools Foundation

The grand island public schools foundation invests in the students, staff and alumni of the grand island public schools.

Education
12
Grand Island Regional Medical Center Foundation

Grand Island Regional Medical Center Foundation is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of, and to support and further the activities of Grand Island Regional Medical Center.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Grand Island Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherNORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCNORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherNORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONGENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEX: $15,000 · OtherGENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEXTHE GRACE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTHE GRACE FOUNDATIONCENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEX: $15,000 · OtherCENTRAL NEBRASKA SPORTS COMPLEXIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+2 more: $5,000 · OtherGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGRACE FOUNDATION …HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNITED …GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GRAND ISL…GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND ISLAN…CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $5,000 · EducationHARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB: $17,500 · Community ImprovementGRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $6,500 · Youth Development
Other$138,500Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$25,000Education$20,000Community Improvement$17,500Housing & Shelter$9,000Youth Development$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Taylor Vern & Esther …Sn Bud and Gloria Wol…Edgar & Frances Reyno…Greater Grand Island …Robert B Daugherty Fo…Nebraska Community Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Black Benjamin a CharVirgil Eihusen Founda…Cnh Industrial Founda…Union Pacific Foundat…
Taylor Vern & Esther Char TrustMO26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 18 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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