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Holthus Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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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 (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 its 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
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 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.

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

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7
Nebraska Safety Council

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

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Greats Foundation; 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 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. 14 of the 21 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Holthus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holthus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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, 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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