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Harbor of Dreams Inc at a glance

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Harbor of Dreams Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$456k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

79% of Harbor of Dreams Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’20
3
’21
2
’22
1
’23
7
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.2MEducation$452kFood & Nutrition$122kArts & Culture$120kHealth$50kYouth Development$20kHuman Services$5kPublic Benefit$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $250k+1 grant · $360k
$24,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$30k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in National Research Corp Cl A.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lincoln Community Foundation Inc$360,000
Lincoln Bike Kitchen$36,171
University of Nebraska Foundation$24,400
Boys and Girls Club of Lincoln$20,000
Lincoln Community Playhouse$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%We Care Endowment: $10k → 13%Can Do Multiple Sclerosis: $25k → 7%We Care Endowment Foundation: $3k → 13%We Care Endowment Foundation: $3k → 13%Educare Lincoln: $200k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $680k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $596k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $410k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $360k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $350k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $275k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $252k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $205k → 13%Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $75k → 13%Lincoln Arts Council: $36k → 13%Lincoln Literacy: $10k → 13%Civic Nebraska: $3k → 13%Food Fort: $10k → 13%Bryan Foundation: $15k → 13%Lincoln Community Playhouse: $15k → 13%White Cane Foundation: $5k → 13%Lincoln Bike Kitchen: $75k → 13%Lincoln Bike Kitchen: $36k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$359k · 4 repeat orgs$417k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$359k
$382k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue -36%
  • LB
    LINCOLN BIKE KITCHEN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $112k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • EO
    EDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +1%
  • NS
    NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $69k · revenue +24%
  • LA
    LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue -43%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
2
Lincoln Health Foundation
Health
3
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
4
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln United Community Coalition
Community Improvement
6
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

—
7
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
8
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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9
Lincoln Foundation

To provide educational enrichment programs that develop and support youth in overcoming social and economic barriers to achievement. this mission is accomplished through college access and college success programs.

Education
10
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
11
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

—
12
Lincoln Community Foundation

To Cultivate Lincoln Philanthropy and Stewardship for Today and Tomorrow

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is We Care Endowment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $3,203,109 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation Inc+2 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $104,960 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $137,380 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $68,789 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN BIKE KITCHEN: $111,500 · Community ImprovementLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $36,000 · OtherCan Do Multiple Sclerosis: $25,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Lincoln: $20,000 · OtherWe Care Endowment Foundation: $5,000 · OtherBryan Foundation: $15,000 · HealthFOOD FORT: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIVIC NEBRASKA: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$3,218,109Education$314,960Arts & Culture$221,169Community Improvement$111,500Other$86,000Health$15,000Youth Development$10,000Civil Rights$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $3,203,109 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC: $200,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $137,380 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN BIKE KITCHEN: $111,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $104,960 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $68,789 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $36,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCan Do Multiple Sclerosis: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBryan Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD FORT: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetWE CARE ENDOWMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetFITTING FUTURES: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lincoln Community Fou…Lee and Debbie Stuart…Cooper FoundationSpreetail FoundationAbel FoundationDuncan Family TrustThe Temme FoundationAcklie Charitable Fou…Bryan Medical CenterOlsson Family Foundat…Moeller Charitable Tr…Kinder Porter Scott F…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Abel Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · The Temme Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Bryan Medical Center · Olsson Family Foundation · Moeller Charitable Trust · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harbor of Dreams Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harbor of Dreams Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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