· Private foundation
Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust
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 $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $47,500 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $12,500 |
| NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INT'L | $2,500 |
| VNA - VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| STEPHEN CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| OMAHA STREET SCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
| TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| GAMBLING WITH THE GOOD LIFE | $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 (FY17–25, $433k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue ×31 · 78% of their budget
- NFNEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +318%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- GUGRACE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -100%
- CCOMMUNITY-360one grant, 2017 · $3k
- OOOPERA OMAHA INCone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -36%
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 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)…
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
To provide emergency shelter
None
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
To provide support and advocacy to families of children. build confidence in parents by providing the necessary tools for appropriate decisions and actions. informing parents of their rights and to assist in problem resolution.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service and the most unlike its peers is James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding. 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 51 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 38 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 NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ↗
- Who funds EPS ESSENTIAL PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH VILLAGE INC D/B/A EPWORTH FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LILY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds GRACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INT'L ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY-360 ↗
- Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- 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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage 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 Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust 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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