· Private foundation
Irene & Joseph Malek Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $33,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATE BAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PARISH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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 15 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irene & Joseph Malek Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irene & Joseph Malek Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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