· Private foundation
John K & Lynne D Boyer 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $853k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $160,000 |
| WASHBURN ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| OPAS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $90,000 |
| GILLWELL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE DURHAM MUSEUM | $36,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA | $32,000 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,500 |
| DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM | $27,000 |
| FONTENELLE FOREST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| JOSLYN CASTLE AND GARDEN | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 13 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM5× · 2020–2025 · $620k · revenue +71%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $506k · revenue +31%
- TDTHE DURHAM MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $422k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DADENVER ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +107%
- TOTOWN OF WICKENBURGone grant, 2020 · $24k
- KKANEKOone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -6%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
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…
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vita Nova Maternity Community. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 100 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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds OPAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILLWELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds SIMPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds DEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENE OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds International Mountain Bicycling Association ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
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 · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Parker Family 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 John K & Lynne D Boyer 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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