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· Private foundation

Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$700k
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 FY2021–2025.

Health$4.3MEducation$1.7MYouth Development$698kArts & Culture$555kHousing & Shelter$265kFood & Nutrition$225kRecreation & Sports$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $262k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $704k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$700,000
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM$150,000
HERITAGE SERVICES$100,000
METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION$95,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$83,400
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$75,000
TOGETHER INC$50,000
JESUIT ACADEMY$50,000
OMAHA STREET SCHOOLS INC$40,000
A TIME TO HEAL$40,000
GIRLS INC$30,000
MUTUAL OF OMAHA FOUNDATION$25,000
ST JOHN PAUL II NEWMAN CENTER INC$21,500
OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $15k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $90k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $85k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $75k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $40k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $15k → 12%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.
$7.5M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
24

Total granted

$7.5M
$854k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+9%

Still filing today

76%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

  • AT
    A TIME TO HEAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +63%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $750k · revenue +12%
  • TI
    TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA
    3× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • CO
    City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $99k · revenue -24%
  • PA
    POLICE ATHLETICS FOR COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $87k

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
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
2
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
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
5
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.

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6
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

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

—
7
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
8
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

—
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
11
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
12
Catholic Charities Foundation

Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Services and the most unlike its peers is Mutual of Omaha Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr17%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr12%50%35–55yr17%11%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
11%
388/3,513

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

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
21/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,350,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONA TIME TO HEAL INC — $1,417,700 · HealthA TIME TO HEAL INCNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · HealthMETHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Health+2 more — $150,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $750,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF N…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA — $150,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHO…OMAHA STREET SCHOOL — $140,000 · EducationOMAHA STREET SC…COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY — $100,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAIN…+1 more — $25,000 · EducationJESUIT ACADEMY — $210,000 · OtherJESUIT ACADEMYPOLICE ATHLETICS FOR COMMUNITY — $87,150 · OtherPOLICE ATHLETICS …PACE — $87,150 · OtherPACEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIDLANDS — $75,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG …CREIGHTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $60,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $100,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical C…City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $99,150 · OtherCity of Omaha Pol…OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $80,000 · OtherOMAHA EQUESTRIAN …MUTUAL OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Other+24 more — $512,500 · Other+24 moreNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $477,500 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR…Partnership 4 Kids Inc — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentPartnersh…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…+1 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $250,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE SERVICES — $100,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA — $224,850 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOUSEWORKS — $40,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT — $15,000 · Human ServicesSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $150,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$4,317,700Education$1,165,000Other$1,360,950Youth Development$717,500Arts & Culture$475,000Human Services$414,850Housing & Shelter$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,350,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetA TIME TO HEAL INC — $1,417,700 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $477,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA — $224,850 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMETHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA — $150,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA STREET SCHOOL — $140,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $99,150 over 1y, 12% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS — $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBellevue University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEVANGELIUM INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Charles and Mary …The Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Hawks FoundationThe Holland FoundationGilbert M and Martha …Mammel Family Foundat…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Leland J & Dorothy H …Weitz Family Foundati…Union Pacific Foundat…
The Lozier FoundationNE62.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Mammel Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family 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 Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 60 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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