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Growing Good Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THICH NHAT HANH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WISDOM HOUSE COLLABORATIVE | $2,000 |
| SANTA MONICA INC | $1,000 |
| MORNING SUN MINDFULNESS CENTER | $1,000 |
| NEBRASKA CANCER COALITION | $1,000 |
| METRO OMAHA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY OF MINDFUL LIVING HONEY LOCUST SANGHA | $1,000 |
| DR SUSAN LA FLESCHE PICOTTE CENTER | $500 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $500 |
| AVENUE SCHOLARS | $500 |
| 12 STEP HOUSE INC | $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 (FY18–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
54 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- NCNEBRASKA CANCER COALITION7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +85%
- SMSANTA MONICA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +138%
- NMNEBRASKA MEDICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +293%
Funded once
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $750 · revenue +169%- FHFREEDOM HUNTERSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +67%
- TCTHE CLEAR FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +428%
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
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…
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immanuel Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Hunters. 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 28 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 79 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 NEBRASKA CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds Wisdom House Collaborative ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds METRO OMAHA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALING GIFT FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIM AT MELANOMA ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds FASHION ARTS COLLECTIVE CO MICHAEL SCHILKEN DVORAK LAW GROUP ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL LIVING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL RESOCIAL COND HELP INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY SPROUTS INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS OUTREACH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds American Medical Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
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 · The Lozier Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · 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 Growing Good 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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