How much does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust give?

Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $133,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (21%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hastings College Foundation ($200k), Nebraska Family Alliance Inc ($115k), Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($108k).

Does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation.

Where is Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust based?

Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust is based in NE.

Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust

Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$134k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$48k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$489kEducation$313kHousing & Shelter$157kReligion$99kFood & Nutrition$94kPublic Safety & Disaster$86kHealth$83kCrime & Legal$65kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $31k
$10k–50k6 grants · $103k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$47,500
OPEN DOOR MISSION	$12,500
NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC	$12,500
SALVATION ARMY	$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND	$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC	$8,000
CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY	$4,000
NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION	$3,000
STEPHEN CENTER INC	$2,500
LIVING WORD MINISTRIES INT'L	$2,500
VNA - VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION	$2,500
TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES	$2,000
GAMBLING WITH THE GOOD LIFE	$2,000
OMAHA STREET SCHOOL INC	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 33 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

-44%

Still filing today

67%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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

HC
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue ×31 · 78% of their budget
NF
NEBRASKA FAMILY ALLIANCE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +318%
LF
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +55%

Funded once

GU
GRACE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -100%
C
COMMUNITY-360
one grant, 2017 · $3k
OO
OPERA OMAHA INC
one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -36%

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.

Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

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)…

Philanthropy

One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement

Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc

To provide emergency shelter

Human Services

Omaha Church Center Inc

None

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The Human Choice of Iowa

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…

Human Services

Lutheran Family Services Foundation Inc

To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.

Human Services

Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

—

Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy

Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal

Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal

Nebraska Family Support Network

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.

—

Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

15/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$640,000Human Services$432,500Education$291,500Housing & Shelter$49,000Youth Development$45,000Employment$14,000Health$8,000

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

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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