· Private foundation
Harold W & Lois D Struve Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of HAROLD W & LOIS D STRUVE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NLOM - NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| PARKVIEW HAVEN | $15,000 |
| THAYER COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THAYER COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| FRIEND LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| THAYER COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DESHLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DESHLER LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF THAYER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JENNIFER REINKE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FAIRBURY MUSIC PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| DESHLER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- PHPARKVIEW HAVEN6× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +73%
- NLNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +43%
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CBCATTLEMEN'S BALL OF NEBRASKA INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -19%
- NCNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BRBlue River Arts Council Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -20%
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.
Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.
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…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
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…
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.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes 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 30 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 74 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 PARKVIEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CATTLEMEN'S BALL OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF THAYER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Blue River Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIEND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPRING CREEK KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Nebraska Community Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Harold W & Lois D Struve 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.