· Private foundation
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 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
- $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 |
| Good Life Rescue | $10,000 |
| GICC Development Foundation | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John A & Gretchen Dinsdale Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John A & Gretchen Dinsdale Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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