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John A & Gretchen Dinsdale Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Merrick Foundation Inc | $56,000 |
| Hastings College Foundation | $50,000 |
| Palmer Community Foundation-Day Care | $31,000 |
| Stuhr Museum Foundation | $25,000 |
| Angels Among Us | $20,000 |
| The Palmer American Legion | $15,000 |
| Goodwill Foundation of Greater Nebraska Inc | $10,000 |
| GICC Development Foundation | $10,000 |
| Good Life Rescue | $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 (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue ×31 · 65% of their budget
- SMSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +27%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEBRASKA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +89%
- HCHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UCUNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Rescue dobermans from shelters, owners who cannot or will not provide for them, and those who are strays whose owners never try to locate them.
To raise the funds necessary to support the services provided by goodwill industries of greater nebraska, inc.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The nebraska humane society protects, saves and enriches the lives of animals in the communities we serve. we do this by providing a broad spectrum of services for the greater omaha area. program offerings include adoption, animal foster…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
Amazing grace aims save the lives of pet's throughout southeastern new mexico through rescue services, veterinary care and adoption efforts.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
The hastings community foundation works to perpetuate and enrich the quality of life in hastings and the surrounding area through the prudent investment and management of philanthropic donations.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hastings College Foundation. 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 26 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 HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds START OVER ROVER ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD LIFE RESCUE ↗
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 Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 John A & Gretchen Dinsdale Charitable 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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