· Private foundation
Imperial Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Imperial Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 10 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 FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
- $250k+1 grant · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,423,248 |
| FIRST PLYMOUTH CHURCH | $104,365 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - TECUMSEH | $60,000 |
| CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN LIGHTHOUSE | $24,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN | $24,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $24,000 |
| HOPE SPOKE | $24,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $24,000 |
| DIMENSIONS FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| FRESH START | $24,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME | $24,000 |
| LONGVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,250 |
| YMCA OF LINCOLN | $10,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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 (FY21–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k 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
- FPFIRST PLYMOUTH CHURCH2× · 2020–2021 · $134k
- CFCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue -19%
- AAAOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $200k
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SCSUMMERFIELD CPR PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
Providing advanced life service level support for nine local communities in lincoln county including damariscotta, newcastle, bremen, bristol, south bristol, nobleboro, jefferson and edgecomb
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
The Lincoln Home provides senior living options for elderly residents in an environment fostering dignity, safety, comfort, and the enjoyment of meaningful lives.
Serving the community to improve the quality of life for our senior citizens focusing on healthy eating, active living and socializing as well as assisting the community with durable medical supplies and some basic needs.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
Community development in lincoln, ne
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnson County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds Young at Heart Senior Center ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION 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: Abel Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Olsson Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Viking Foundation of Lincoln · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Sherwood Foundation · Raybould 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 Imperial 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.
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