· Private foundation
Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $432k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST | $30,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN CAVE CONSERVANCY INC | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALLAWAY CNTY KY | $20,000 |
| THE MEETING PLACE | $20,000 |
| HARPETH CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| CUMBERLAND RIVER COMPACT | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA | $20,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE | $20,000 |
| BEATRICE HUMANE SOCIETY | $17,000 |
| CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE TEAM | $10,000 |
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +49% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70%
- BHBEATRICE HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +211%
- PPPRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- HIHAWKWING INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -89%
- PEPhoenix Effect Death Row Rescueone grant, 2020 · $2k
- GGGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +86%
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 nebraska humane society protects, saves and enriches the lives of animals in the communities we serve. we do this by providing a broad spectrum of services for the greater omaha area. program offerings include adoption, animal foster…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
The lincoln county humane society is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and abuse to animals, birds and wildlife. we strive to maintain a no-kill facility and a place of safety.
To provide shelter to lost and homeless animals, to educate the community about the humane care and treatment of all animals, to advocate animal welfare and to further the bond between people and animals.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Rescue dobermans from shelters, owners who cannot or will not provide for them, and those who are strays whose owners never try to locate them.
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
To provide temporary shelter, food, medical attention, and comfort to displaced and neglected companion animals and educate the public about the humane care of animals with the goal of reducing overpopulation.
The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.
Protect nebraska's natural legacy by educating voters, advocating for sound policies, and electing conservation champions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and the most unlike its peers is Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 70 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATEWIDE ARBORETUM HANNA PINNEO ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARI SANDOZ HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FAMILES NOW ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds BEATRICE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds EPONA HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET BEATRICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN CAVE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEETING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Spreetail Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · The Sherwood Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family 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 Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston 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.