· Private foundation
Irene & Joseph Malek Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PARISH | $25,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATE BAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS | $17,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE INDIAN MISSION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KIOS BROADCASTING SERV OF OMAHA | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +70%
- BUBellevue University9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +98%
- CUCreighton University8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $12k
- SMST MARGARET MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
Promote the achievements and aspirations of the university of nebraska - lincoln by engaging its students, alumni, and friends.
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.
The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.
Aia nebraska is the nebraska society of the american institute of architects. the american institute of architects is the voice of the architectural profession and the resource for its members in service to society.
Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.
To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.
The associations mission is to advance medical research and education to benefit veterans and the general public.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kios Broadcasting Serv of the Omaha Public Schools. 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 15 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of KIOS Broadcasting Serv of the Omaha Public Schools ↗
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.
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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 Irene & Joseph Malek 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.