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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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$112kHealth$103kFood & Nutrition$60kEducation$47kEnvironment$31kHuman Services$17kCrime & Legal$5kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$257k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT$7,500
EXPERIENCE CAMPS$3,750
DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION$2,500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION NEBRASKA$2,500
NAMI NEBRASKA$2,500
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$1,500
SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$1,000
KENT SCHOOL INC$700
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC$550
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $3k → 13%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $3k → 13%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $2k → 13%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $500 → 13%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $8k → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 18 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$366k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+58%

Still filing today

67%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SE
    SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +36%
  • THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA OF LINCOLNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +72%
  • LP
    LINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
  • CH
    CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +104%
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
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
2
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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3
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
4
Lincoln Animal Ambassadors

To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.

Animals
5
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
6
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
7
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
8
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

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

Philanthropy
9
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center

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

Community Improvement
10
Nebraska Kidney Association

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…

—
11
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
12
Urban League of Nebraska

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION NEBRASKA: $63,500 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION NEBRASKATHE LIGHTHOUSE: $56,000 · OtherTHE LIGHTHOUSERESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $47,500 · OtherRESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENTTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $25,300 · OtherTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $16,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INCNAMI NEBRASKA: $12,500 · Other+9 more: $18,000 · Other+9 moreFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $56,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF LIN…SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,800 · Arts & CultureSULTANA E…GARFIELD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGARFIELD …DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF LINCOLN: $8,000 · Human ServicesLIVE WELL GO FISH: $7,000 · Human ServicesKENT SCHOOL INC: $12,950 · EducationWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $9,200 · EducationEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $6,250 · Youth DevelopmentLINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$238,800Food & Nutrition$56,000Arts & Culture$33,300Human Services$24,000Education$22,150Youth Development$6,250Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $30,800 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $25,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENT SCHOOL INC: $12,950 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI NEBRASKA: $12,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $9,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF LINCOLN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE WELL GO FISH: $7,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $6,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN POLICE UNION MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARFIELD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN ICE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENT ASSOCIATION OF RIDING THERAPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $500 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.

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.

Mid Shore Community F…Gladwood FoundationPegler Family Foundat…David a Bramble Found…Lincoln Community Fou…The Bessemer Giving F…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation for Tomorrow funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Tomorrow. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Foundation for Tomorrow?

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.

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 25 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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