· Private foundation
Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $867k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $649k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brownell-Talbot School | $184,000 |
| Pottawattamie Conservation Foundation | $115,000 |
| Bellevue University | $75,000 |
| NorthStar Foundation | $75,000 |
| Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum | $50,000 |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $50,000 |
| Omaha Home for Boys | $50,000 |
| Quality Living Inc | $50,000 |
| SienaFrancis House | $40,000 |
| Omaha Conservatory of Music | $30,000 |
| Lauritzen Gardens | $30,000 |
| Women's Center for Advancemenbt | $30,000 |
| Kevin O'Connor Scholarship Fund Inc | $30,000 |
| Avenue Scholars Foundation | $25,000 |
| Methodist Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- BSBROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $651k · revenue +20%
- BUBellevue University8× · 2017–2025 · $575k · revenue +98%
- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FOREST LAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k
- NJNebraska Journalism Trust - Flatwater Free Pressone grant, 2024 · $50k
- TIThe Island School Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -27%
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.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
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.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Our mission is to provide ownership opportunities through public and private partnerships, financing, and technical assistance. by working collaboratively, we aim to expand access to capital in underserved communities, empowering…
Organized for the purpose of assisting individuals and groups in the resolution and management of conflicts, promoting public awareness and understanding of alternative dispute resolutions, providing educational materials, workshops and…
Justice for our neighbors-nebraska is a nonprofit organization welcoming immigrants into our communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Hattie B Munroe Pavilion. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 148 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 NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KEVIN O'CONNOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds OUTLOOK ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands
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 M and Martha H Hitchcock 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.
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