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D F Dillon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| DOANE COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| PIUS X FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $475,000 |
| REGIS UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| LINCOLN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $215,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL | $176,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $175,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $965k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +70%
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +5%
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +73%
- NPNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -11%
- CCCULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLNone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Celebrating Nebraska Statehood Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
100 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. 100 of the 200 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tabitha Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTMONT TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Lozier Foundation · Acklie Charitable 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 D F Dillon 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.
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.
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