· Community foundation
Hastings Community Foundation Inc
The hastings community foundation works to perpetuate and enrich the quality of life in hastings and the surrounding area through the prudent investment and management of philanthropic donations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 69 grants below total $1,790,083 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,586,022 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,795,939 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 $10k26 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $797k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $802k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $202,260 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $155,430 |
| HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $123,064 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $87,544 |
| ST CECILIA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $70,500 |
| YMCA OF HASTINGS | $62,536 |
| PRAIRIE LOFT CENTER INC | $50,435 |
| TEAM AMERICAN FREEDOM CO | $50,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA | $44,101 |
| REVIVE INC | $43,509 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA | $43,054 |
| HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $41,625 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $37,250 |
| HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $34,701 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $34,657 |
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, $1.8M) 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue ×31
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA8× · 2017–2024 · $810k · revenue +89%
- HCHASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $728k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- FCFILLMORE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -70%
- SCST CHRISTOPHERS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BVBLUE VALLEY CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $14k
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 promote the city of hastings, nebraska.
The foundation's mission is to encourage, promote and foster catholic education in hastings, minnesota and surrounding communities.
To preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
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)…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…
Engaging the community to end hunger
The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hastings Catholic Schools Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 107 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 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE LOFT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds START OVER ROVER ↗
- Who funds MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM ↗
- Who funds REVIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC DBA HEARTLAND PET CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PLATTE VALLEY AREA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Pregnancy Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Hearts & Hands Against Hunger of Hastings ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILLMORE COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts 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: LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee · United Way of South Central Nebraska Inc · Sunnyside Inc · Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Kitty M Perkins Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff
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 Hastings Community Foundation Inc 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.