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Foundation for Tomorrow
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | $7,500 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $3,750 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION NEBRASKA | $2,500 |
| NAMI NEBRASKA | $2,500 |
| DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL INC | $700 |
| THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC | $550 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SESULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +36%
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF LINCOLNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +72%
- LPLINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
- CHCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +104%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To promote credit unions in nebraska
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
The nka strives to improve the quality of life for all nebraskans by: advocating for better health policies; supporting legislation for better health care; providing information and education to the general public, professional community…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Police Union Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds LIVE WELL GO FISH ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY 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.
Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Gladwood Foundation · Pegler Family Foundation · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Foundation for Tomorrow 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sultana Education Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
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.
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Find your warmest path to Foundation for Tomorrow 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.