· Private foundation
Debby Durham Family 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 $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $786k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINSTREET OF FREMONT | $169,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE HEARTLAND | $160,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $100,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $100,000 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $69,520 |
| FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $65,000 |
| WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| AMY BELL CHARITIES INC | $60,000 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS | $60,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| PHOENIX ACADEMY DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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, $799k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Debby Durham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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 FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $970k · revenue +31%
- MOMAINSTREET OF FREMONT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $678k · revenue +374% · 92% of their budget
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND9× · 2017–2025 · $565k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FREMONTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- FAFREMONT AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -5%
- WEWASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Rescue dobermans from shelters, owners who cannot or will not provide for them, and those who are strays whose owners never try to locate them.
The mission of the nebraska ffa foundation is to enhance quality education/ffa programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students.
The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Preserve and strengthen families.
The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area United Way and the most unlike its peers is 5150 Farm and Rescue 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 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 144 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 MAINSTREET OF FREMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds FUREVER HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OLD POOR FARM ↗
- Who funds Victory Boxing Club ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TO WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit 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 Debby Durham Family 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.