· Community foundation
Greater Grand Island Community Foundation
Empowering people to turn their passion into purpose by creating legacies that strengthen the future of the communities we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $1,786,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,781,804 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $994,967 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $194k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $706,562 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $464,390 |
| HEARTLAND UNITED WAY | $289,476 |
| HOPE HARBOR | $45,720 |
| CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $37,321 |
| GRAND ISLAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOO | $18,100 |
| SCOTTSDALE BIBLE CHURCH | $17,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL | $17,200 |
| STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $13,050 |
| ST LEO'S PARISH | $12,500 |
| CENTRAL PLATTE NRD | $11,126 |
| THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,730 |
| DIOCESE OF GRAND ISLAND | $10,500 |
| FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $9,700 |
| SAINT PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,550 |
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 (FY17–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue ×31
- GGGROW GRAND ISLAND INC2× · 2019–2021 · $959k · revenue +675%
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $731k · revenue ×15 · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLAND PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2021 · $65k
- OSOREGON SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $35k
- SCSHERMAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $31k
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.
To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
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.
Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.
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)…
To promote corn and corn products
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.
To provide the public an intergenerational garden environment that is welcoming, beautiful, calm, educational, recreational, and fun.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 10% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 100 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 HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GROW GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTURA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW RISING INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
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: Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Heartland United Way Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mdm Foundation · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Virgil Eihusen Foundation 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 Greater Grand Island 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.