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Dolezal Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$282k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$661kHuman Services$284kYouth Development$280kReligion$148kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$80kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $273k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$35,000
LINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE$26,000
WHITE CANE FOUNDATION$24,250
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOO$17,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$16,000
EASTER SEAL SOCIETY$15,000
EDUCARE OF LINCOLN$15,000
CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION$15,000
BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$14,250
YMCA OF LINCOLN$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FAMILY SERVICE LINCOLN$10,000
MOURNING HOPE$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $10k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $10k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $10k → 13%VISIONARY YOUTH: $8k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $5k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $5k → 13%VISIONARY YOUTH: $5k → 13%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $10k → 13%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 30 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+36%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LO
    LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +21%
  • LC
    LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +41%
  • CS
    Camp Sonshine
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -44%
  • CY
    CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    CEDARS HOMOE FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lincoln Total Community Action Inc

Early childhood development.

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2
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
3
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
4
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

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5
Lincoln County Community Theater & Orchestra

To present diverse, high-quality programs that provide entertaining, artistic, educational and social experiences that enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
6
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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7
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
8
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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9
Boys and Girls Club of Lincolnlancaster County

The mission of the boys & girls club of lincoln/lancaster county is to empower all youth to reach their full potential.

Youth Development
10
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center

To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.

Community Improvement
12
Lincoln Literacy Council

To strengthen our community by teaching the english language and various literacy skills to people of all cultures.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Community Playhouse and the most unlike its peers is Sewing for Babies Incorporated. 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 32 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%0%<5yr9%7%5–10yr15%17%10–20yr13%31%20–35yr29%21%35–55yr20%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%0%<5yr9%4%5–10yr15%13%10–20yr13%38%20–35yr29%20%35–55yr20%26%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
7%
164/2,513

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $148,345 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL — $61,500 · OtherLINCOLN ARTS COUNCILCEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN — $60,000 · OtherCEDARS HOME FOR CHILDRENTHE SALVATION ARMY OF LINCOLN — $36,600 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOO — $32,500 · OtherTHE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE — $30,000 · OtherLINCOLN CROSSROADS MUSIC — $30,000 · OtherCEDARS HOMOE FOR CHILDREN — $25,000 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $50,350 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $30,000 · Other+15 more — $130,100 · Other+15 moreLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $190,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $120,000 · Arts & CultureLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTSLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $75,050 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSEMOURNING HOPE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMOURNING HOPELINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUMCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INCCamp Sonshine — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC — $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY IMPACT — $90,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC — $45,000 · EducationBRIGHT LIGHTS INC — $30,000 · EducationDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $41,000 · PhilanthropyFITTING FUTURES — $39,250 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $5,300 · PhilanthropyYMCA OF LINCOLN — $40,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY YOUTH — $12,500 · Human Services
Other$734,395Arts & Culture$520,050Youth Development$137,500Community Improvement$100,000Education$100,000Philanthropy$85,550Human Services$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $190,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $120,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetCITY IMPACT — $90,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCamp Sonshine — $80,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $75,050 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL — $61,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE — $55,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $50,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC — $47,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $41,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYMCA OF LINCOLN — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFITTING FUTURES — $39,250 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE — $30,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH — $12,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBELMONT COMMUNITY CENTER — $8,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS NEBRASKA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEWING FOR BABIES INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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 LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds Camp Sonshine ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
  • Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VISIONARY YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationCooper FoundationDuncan Family TrustD F Dillon FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Pace Woods FoundationOlsson Family Foundat…Hugo a and Thelma Asp…Assurity Life Foundat…Rogers FoundationLee and Debbie Stuart…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE53.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Pace Woods Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Hugo a and Thelma Aspegren Charitable Trust · Assurity Life Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family 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 Dolezal 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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