· Private foundation
Heuermann Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Heuermann Family Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $106,677 |
| PHILLIPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HENDERSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.
The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…
Operates for the promotion and support of the city of hay springs, nebraska, the hay springs public school district, and the surrounding community.
The foundation serves as a cultural, educational, historical, and literary organization for the maintenance and support of masonry.
The harvard community foundation is dedicated to the future by encouraging donations for social, cultural, and educational progress in harvard, nebraska.
Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.
To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.
To ensure that there will be an adequate number of highly trained nurses and dietary staff to care for the residents of the state's nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
To support the first presbyterian church of hastings, nebraska.
To promote the restaurant industry
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henderson Child Development Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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: Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · 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 Heuermann Family 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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