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Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc at a glance

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Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$303kEducation$276kHealth$216kArts & Culture$191kYouth Development$143kRecreation & Sports$139kAnimals$107kHuman Services$106kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$15,000
STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION$10,000
CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
GI PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
GRAND ISLAND SKEET SPTG CLAYS$10,000
GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HEARTLAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$5,000
NEBRASKA DENTAL FOUNDATION$5,000
GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
NEBRASKA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $20k → 11%CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $10k → 11%HOPE HARBOR: $9k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS INDUSTRIES: $6k → 12%SENIOR CITIZENS INDUSTRIES: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $3k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $2k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $1k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $1k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 47 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$1.3M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+2%

Still filing today

40%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +206%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +61%
  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue ×31

Funded once

  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND RIFLE CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • CC
    CENTRAL CATHOLIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +511%
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
Central Nebraska Growth Foundation

To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…

Community Improvement
2
Hastings Community Foundation Inc

The hastings community foundation works to perpetuate and enrich the quality of life in hastings and the surrounding area through the prudent investment and management of philanthropic donations.

Philanthropy
3
Harvard Community Foundation Inc

The harvard community foundation is dedicated to the future by encouraging donations for social, cultural, and educational progress in harvard, nebraska.

Philanthropy
4
Valley County Health System Foundat

The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.

Health
5
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
6
Jefferson County Health Center Foundation Inc

To receive contributions and gifts and to disburse funds to assist in supporting jefferson county hospital, jefferson county, iowa.

Human Services
7
North Central Development Center Inc

To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.

Community Improvement
8
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

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

Philanthropy
9
The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…

Education
10
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
11
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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12
Hastings Museum

The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christmas Cheer. 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

31 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. 31 of the 78 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $145,000 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGEGRAND ISLAND SKEET SPTG CLAYS: $137,000 · OtherGRAND ISLAND SKEET SPTG CLAYSNEBRASKA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $92,500 · OtherNEBRASKA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $77,500 · OtherSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATIONGRAND ISLAND PARKS AND RECREATION D: $75,534 · OtherGRAND ISLAND PARKS AND RECREATION DGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDAT: $57,500 · Other+52 more: $668,296 · Other+52 moreGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $182,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GRAND …HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COMMU…HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $14,500 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNIT…GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $32,500 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $9,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationCAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HUNGER: $13,500 · Community ImprovementHARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HARBOR INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS INDUSTRIES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS CHEER: $9,500 · Human ServicesGRAND ISLAND LIVESTOCK COMPLEX AUTH: $40,000 · AnimalsCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 · AnimalsGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,253,330Philanthropy$223,000Education$88,500Community Improvement$73,500Human Services$67,000Animals$52,000Arts & Culture$40,000

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 budgetGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $182,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetGRAND ISLAND LIVESTOCK COMPLEX AUTH: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $25,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLAGE CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $16,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC: $16,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HUNGER: $13,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS INDUSTRIES INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetNEBRASKA MISSION OF MERCY: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER: $9,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $9,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNUCKOLLS COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILLOW RISING INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOSAIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND LIVESTOCK COMPLEX AUTH ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Sn Bud and Gloria Wol…Greater Grand Island …Taylor Vern & Esther …Kaufmann-Cummings Fou…Fred & Amanda Glade F…The Sherwood Foundati…Mdm FoundationHirschfeld Family Fou…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Claussen E & M Charit…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…
Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable FoundatiNE43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Mdm Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty 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 Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc 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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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