· Community foundation
Fremont Area Community Foundation
To improve the quality of life in the fremont area by connecting donor interest with community needs and serving as a leader and catalyst in the development of solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $2,624,199 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,781,072 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $156,873 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $626k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $911k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,010,546 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK | $179,000 |
| DODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $132,225 |
| FREMONT FAMILY YMCA | $108,500 |
| MIDLAND UNIVERSITY | $95,759 |
| LIFEHOUSE | $83,489 |
| FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $56,267 |
| CITY OF FREMONT | $55,820 |
| CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSIST | $50,000 |
| DODGE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS | $50,000 |
| PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $48,400 |
| NORTH BEND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $41,960 |
| FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $31,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k 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
- FPFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue ×13
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2025 · $706k · revenue +27%
- CCCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $620k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- FIFREMONT ICE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- UFUEHLING FIRE DISTRICT 6one grant, 2023 · $59k
- TFTEAMMATES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -42%
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.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
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.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
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…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The mission of the nebraska ffa foundation is to enhance quality education/ffa programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Labor relations
The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…
Nonprofit corporation which provides leadership development and enhancement through educational programs and opportunities for community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area United Way and the most unlike its peers is Fremont Downtown Development Group. 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 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
87 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. 87 of the 160 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 FREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TO WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREMONT YMCA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT FNTN ↗
- Who funds FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT ICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · Debby Durham Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Fremont Area United Way · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Suzanne & Walter Scott 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 Fremont Area Community Foundation 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.
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.