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Debby Durham Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$169k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.4MArts & Culture$2.0MAnimals$1.6MHuman Services$1.4MHousing & Shelter$989kHealth$962kFood & Nutrition$710kReligion$640kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $786k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINSTREET OF FREMONT$169,000
FOOD BANK OF THE HEARTLAND$160,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$150,000
THE BRIDGE$100,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION$100,000
DURHAM MUSEUM$69,520
FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY$65,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$60,000
LAWRENCE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$60,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$60,000
WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$60,000
AMY BELL CHARITIES INC$60,000
LIFE HOUSE$50,000
PHOENIX ACADEMY DAY SCHOOL$50,000
FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY: $20k → 6%PEOPLE FOR GUATEMALA INC: $20k → 10%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $23k → 8%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $20k → 8%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $20k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $15k → 7%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $13k → 8%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $12k → 8%ROOTS TO WINGS: $15k → 7%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $100k → 12%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $11k → 8%ROOTS TO WINGS: $10k → 7%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $80k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 12%PARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BOARD: $10k → 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $50k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $20k → 12%LINK: $5k → 15%LINK: $5k → 15%UNIQUELY YOURS STABILITY SUPPORT: $30k → 11%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%UNIQUELY YOURS STABILITY SUPPORT: $20k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $10k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
IA
CA
NE
VA
AZ
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Debby Durham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 75%.

Debby Durham Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 92 repeat orgs$872k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
42

Total granted

$14M
$714k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+4%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $970k · revenue +31%
  • MO
    MAINSTREET OF FREMONT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $678k · revenue +374% · 92% of their budget
  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $565k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FREMONT
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • FA
    FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -5%
  • WE
    WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
5
Doberman Rescue of Nebraska Inc

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.

Animals
6
Nebraska Ffa Foundation

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.

Youth Development
7
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation

The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.

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8
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
9
Nebraska Family Alliance Inc

Preserve and strengthen families.

—
10
Nebraska Votes

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.

Civil Rights
11
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

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12
United Way of Nebraska City Inc

United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area United Way; 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.
05the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 144 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/91
Grantees still filing
57/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $565,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDTHE BRIDGE INC: $410,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE INCINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $305,000 · OtherCATZ ANGELS RESCUE EFFORT: $282,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $275,000 · OtherSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $245,000 · Other+91 more: $5,241,200 · Other+91 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $970,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA …FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $669,342 · EducationFRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORI…WEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $465,000 · EducationWEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN S…Lawrence Schools Foundation: $450,000 · EducationLawrence Schools Founda…METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Education+9 more: $345,500 · Education+9 moreMAINSTREET OF FREMONT INC: $677,500 · Arts & CultureMAINSTREET O…THE DURHAM MUSEUM: $488,920 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM M…OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $180,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFOR…PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $167,500 · Arts & CulturePATRIOTIC PR…+7 more: $87,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreFUREVER HOME INC: $414,000 · AnimalsFUREVER H…NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $375,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA …OLD POOR FARM: $230,000 · AnimalsOLD POOR …HEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS: $115,000 · AnimalsHEARTS UN…DODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $65,000 · AnimalsDODGE COU…+1 more: $7,500 · AnimalsOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $410,000 · Human ServicesROOTS TO WINGS INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesPARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERV: $88,800 · Human ServicesUNIQUELY YOURS STABILITY SUPPORT INC: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $90,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $330,000 · Food & NutritionHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $80,000 · Food & NutritionNebraska Communities United: $23,245 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $12,000 · Food & NutritionVictory Boxing Club: $220,000 · Recreation & SportsOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $136,000 · Recreation & SportsARLINGTON YOUTH SPORTS: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,323,200Education$3,019,842Arts & Culture$1,600,920Animals$1,206,500Human Services$798,800Food & Nutrition$445,245Recreation & Sports$406,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $970,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAINSTREET OF FREMONT INC: $677,500 over 4y, 92% of budgetFRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $669,342 over 9y, 54% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $565,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $488,920 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetWEATHERFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $465,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetLawrence Schools Foundation: $450,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetFUREVER HOME INC: $414,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $410,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGE INC: $410,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $375,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $330,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $305,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $245,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOLD POOR FARM: $230,000 over 6y, 74% of budgetVictory Boxing Club: $220,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $180,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $167,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetROOTS TO WINGS INC: $160,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetFREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTS UNITED FOR ANIMALS: $115,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetFRESH START FOR ALL NATIONS: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $100,000 over 8y, 44% of budgetVAN GO INC: $90,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetWreaths Across America: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEBRASKA: $90,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetPARKER COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERV: $88,800 over 6y, 30% of budgetFREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetJOHN C FREMONT DAYS INC: $81,000 over 7y, 37% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $80,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST: $80,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHaskell Foundation: $80,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetFREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC: $70,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMY BELL CHARITIES INC: $67,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSTARS AND STRIDES STABLES INC: $65,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetDODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $65,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MONICA INC: $60,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLOW INCOME MINISTRY OF DODGE COUNTY: $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA MINERAL AND GEM CLUB INC: $55,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC: $54,000 over 3y, 4.7% 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.

  • 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 OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE INC ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START FOR ALL NATIONS ↗

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Fremont Area Communit…The Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Nebraska Community Fo…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Charles and Mary …Douglas County Commun…Immanuel Community Vi…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Union Pacific Foundat…
The Lozier FoundationNE40.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Debby Durham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Debby Durham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 144 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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