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Holthus Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$4.8MCrime & Legal$253kRecreation & Sports$182kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$35kHealth$25kHuman Services$13kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON COUNTY INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUN$50,000
BRAVE BE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
HOPE GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION$5,000
CASA OF YORK COUNTY$2,500
BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) 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.

area typical 9%SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 11%CASA OF YORK COUNTY: $3k → 11%BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
York University

The university provides post secondary education to individuals seeking a bachelor's degree from an accredited university or a master's degree in education or leadersihp through an online program.

Education
3
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
4
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation
Human Services
5
Unf Charitable Gift Fund

The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.

Philanthropy
6
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

7
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

8
Nebraska Medical Foundation

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.

Health
9
Kappa Foundation

Kappa foundation provides housing and scholarship support to students attending the university of nebraska-lincoln, primarily those enrolled in the college of agricultural sciences and natural resources. the foundation supports an…

Education
10
York Health Foundation

The york health foundation is a community-based, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health of the local community by generating charitable contributions for the york-based entities of wellspan health, including york…

Health
11
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

12
Nebraska Coalition for Patient Safety

Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Greats Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Celebrating Nebraska Statehood Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $4,350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $250,000 · EducationYORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationBOONE COUNTY FOUNDATION FUND — $100,000 · OtherUS SAILING FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUN — $50,000 · Other+9 more — $39,000 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $250,000 · Crime & LegalTHE GARUNA FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC — $27,000 · Recreation & SportsHENDERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthCELEBRATING NEBRASKA STATEHOOD INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,825,000Other$289,000Crime & Legal$250,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Recreation & Sports$27,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $4,350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE GARUNA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC — $27,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCornell University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOR YORK COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Holthus 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Holthus Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Holthus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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