· Private foundation
Gilbert C Swanson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF ST MARY | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $12,000 |
| CUES FUND | $12,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL OMA | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST MARYS | $10,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE BAY DBA RABBLE MILL | $10,000 |
| EL MUSEO LATINO | $10,000 |
| OMAHA STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,200 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- COCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +67%
- OSOMAHA STREET SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +72%
- EMEL MUSEO LATINO8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +326%
Funded once
- HFHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +21%
- MCMetropolitan Community Collegeone grant, 2020 · $9k
- SASTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +4%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
K-8 school
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
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.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
The omaha community playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, community involvement, and arts education. we are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through…
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is El Museo Latino. 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 34 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EL MUSEO LATINO ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES ↗
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 Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · The Rebensdorf Family Foundation · Parker Family 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 Gilbert C Swanson Foundation Inc 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.
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