· Private foundation
Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation
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.
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 $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $15,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $13,143 |
| VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $9,315 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,293 |
| FILM STREAMS | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +214%
- OCOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +29%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
- OSOklahoma State University Foundationone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -3%
- KKANEKOone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 80 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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIP AND TERRI SCHRAGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE WORLD SERIES OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Giving 3 Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community 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 Harley and Beth Schrager 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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