· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation
To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Omaha Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 66 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 72 grants below total $13,932,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,407,231 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $474,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $642k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $799k
- $250k+7 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA | $9,498,442 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NEBRASKA | $811,826 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $482,700 |
| FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY | $440,343 |
| BETH EL SYNAGOGUE | $421,433 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $401,500 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $291,200 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $194,684 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $144,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION | $100,500 |
| STREET KIDS INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE | $83,320 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $70,800 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $55,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA AN ACHAI | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k 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 · $2.8M · revenue +70%
- NHNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $554k · revenue +16%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MCMAKOR CHAIM USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +36% · 37% of their budget
- AYAM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- OHOak HillsBikhor Cholim Cemetery Trust Perpetual Care c/o Union Bk & Tr Co-Trusteeone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +24%
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.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Sri Lanka Helping Hands. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 186 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds STREET KIDS WORLDWIDE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MAKOR CHAIM USA INC ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NER YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletics for Community Engagement ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA'AN ACHAI ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Omaha Botanical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Jewish Federation of Omaha 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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.