· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $106,677 |
| PHILLIPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| HENDERSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Heuermann Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heuermann Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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