· Private foundation
Cost of Discipleship Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABIDE NETWORK | $124,000 |
| LOVE CHURCH | $121,234 |
| VICTORY BOXING CLUB | $24,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BUSINESS MEN (CMBC) | $19,885 |
| ST LUKE'S CANCER INSTITUTE | $15,096 |
| PARTNERSHIP 4 KIDS | $10,000 |
| OMAHA STREET SCHOOL | $5,678 |
| NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| PILLAR SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $4,250 |
| BARNIENTOS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| REVIVE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| VARIOUS ORGANZATIONS UNDER 500 | $1,666 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VBVictory Boxing Club4× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +11%
- PSPillar Seminary4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +3%
- P4Partnership 4 Kids Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- MCMISSION CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $11k
- MHMISSION HOPE CHURCH MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $7k
- RIRELEASE INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -21%
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.
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
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…
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
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…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
None
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
End hunger together.
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.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Boxing Club ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pillar Seminary ↗
- Who funds Partnership 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RELEASE INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds BARRIENTOS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Adah K Millard Charitable Trust · Seline Family Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cost of Discipleship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cost of Discipleship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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