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Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its 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
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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%
+13%

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
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

  • 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%
  • P
    PACE
    one grant, 2021 · $87k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Services; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ACADEMYPACE: $87,150 · OtherPACEPOLICE ATHLETICS FOR COMMUNITY: $87,150 · OtherPOLICE ATHLETICS …BIG 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 & CultureDOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetHARBOR HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMUTUAL OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBellevue University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEVANGELIUM INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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

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 Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial. 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%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
    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 60 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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