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Dixon Family Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$480k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$725kEnvironment$507kHousing & Shelter$405kEducation$333kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,140,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,190,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
  • $250k+1 grant · $480k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$480,000
COMPLETELY KIDS$120,000
COLLECTIVE FOR YOUTH$100,000
FONTENELLE FOREST$60,000
PROJECT HARMONY$50,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$45,000
EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING$35,000
THE DURHAM MUSEUM$30,000
OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION$30,000
OMAHA THEATER COMPANY$25,000
CRCC$20,000
MAISY & MARLEYS PURPOSE INC$20,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
SHELTERING TREE INC$20,000
NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $30k → 12%SHARE MY SMILE: $10k → 12%KNIGHTS OF AK-SAR-BEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $50k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $25k → 6%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $15k → 12%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $15k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INC: $15k → 12%MEMORIES FOR KIDS: $15k → 12%GRIEF'S JOURNEY: $15k → 12%EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING: $35k → 12%EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING: $35k → 12%CRCC: $20k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $15k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $7k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $50k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 32 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
36

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +100%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS
    4× · 2018–2025 · $428k · revenue +6%
  • CK
    COMPLETELY KIDS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +227%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -2%
  • KF
    KICKS FOR A CURE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue -20% · 30% of their budget
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
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
3
Omaha Sports Commission

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

—
5
Omaha Children's Museum

Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…

Arts & Culture
6
Omaha Parks Foundation

The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…

Environment
7
Opera Omaha Inc

Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.

Arts & Culture
8
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
9
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
10
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

—
11
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

74 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. 74 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/74
Grantees still filing
47/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $1,430,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC O…OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $155,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETYOmaha Community Foundation: $1,144,155 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community F…AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $45,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $52,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MU…BAND OF ANGELS CORP: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBAND OF ANGELS …OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $180,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMIN…THE DURHAM MUSEUM: $120,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSE…OMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $112,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA THEATER C…JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN CASTLE T…OMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA SYMPHONY …STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $42,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $427,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…COMPLETELY KIDS: $397,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDSGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS SPI…NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $58,000 · Youth Development+3 moreFONTENELLE FOREST: $162,000 · OtherFONTENELLE FORESTBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $90,000 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $83,000 · OtherHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · OtherNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC: $70,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $315,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical Center IncSHELTERING TREE INC: $220,000 · OtherSHELTERING TREE INCSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $95,000 · Other+30 more: $900,200 · Other+30 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationCollective For Youth: $100,000 · EducationBLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationWilliam Jewell College: $50,000 · EducationTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationSaint Lukes Foundation: $200,000 · HealthKICKS FOR A CURE INC: $115,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health
Animals$1,705,000Philanthropy$1,241,655Arts & Culture$1,094,500Youth Development$1,082,500Other$2,010,200Education$435,000Health$430,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $1,430,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $1,144,155 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $427,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $397,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $315,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSHELTERING TREE INC: $220,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $200,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $180,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $162,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA: $145,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKICKS FOR A CURE INC: $115,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $112,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCollective For Youth: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $95,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $90,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $83,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC: $75,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC: $70,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetBLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $58,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $52,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $45,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPT OF NE INC: $45,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetADULT EDUCATION CENTER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCarole's House of Hope: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNOTRE DAME HOUSING INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMAGDALENE OMAHA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Hawks FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…The Holland FoundationSuzanne & Walter Scot…Parker Family Foundat…The Charles and Mary …Nebraska Community Fo…Leland J & Dorothy H …Weitz Family Foundati…
The Lozier FoundationNE83.6× affinity39 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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family 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 Dixon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dixon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dixon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dixon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 75 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 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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