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John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$490kHealth$381kCrime & Legal$359kYouth Development$298kAnimals$268kHousing & Shelter$253kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $321k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $853k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WICKENBURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $32k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $15k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $8k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $3k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA: $2k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $200 → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $1k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $3k → 12%TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $3k → 12%TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $3k → 12%VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY: $5k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $2k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
WY
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 59 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
27

Total granted

$5.8M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+12%

Still filing today

66%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2025 · $620k · revenue +71%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $506k · revenue +31%
  • TD
    THE DURHAM MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $422k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +107%
  • TO
    TOWN OF WICKENBURG
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • K
    KANEKO
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Museum of Nebraska Art

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Opera Omaha Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
5
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
6
Omaha Sports Commission

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Omaha Parks Foundation

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…

Environment
8
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
9
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
10
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
11
Hastings Museum

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.

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12
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
42/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $619,750 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUMTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $421,850 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSEUMOPAS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureOPAS FOUNDATIONOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $216,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $150,250 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATIONNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY F…+6 more: $104,750 · Arts & Culture+6 moreDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $316,800 · OtherDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUMWASHBURN ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $290,000 · OtherWASHBURN ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATIONSUSAN LA FLESCHE PICOTTE MEM HOSPITAL: $187,383 · OtherSUSAN LA FLESCHE PICOTTE MEM HOSPITALWESTSIDE FOUNDATION: $164,800 · OtherWESTSIDE FOUNDATIONWICKENBURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $150,100 · OtherWICKENBURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTMID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $105,222 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $101,000 · OtherNEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES: $100,000 · Other+61 more: $717,700 · Other+61 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $506,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NE…BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $161,000 · EducationBENSON HIGH SCHO…THE COLORADO COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COL…Bellevue University: $70,000 · EducationBellevue Univers…SIMPLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationSIMPLE FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $32,500 · EducationPROJECT HARMONY: $323,000 · Crime & LegalMAGDALENE OMAHA INC: $30,200 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalGILLWELL FOUNDATION: $143,715 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $124,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $5,100 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $215,800 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $49,300 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $252,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,887,600Other$2,133,005Education$904,700Crime & Legal$358,200Youth Development$282,815Animals$266,600Housing & Shelter$252,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $619,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $506,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $421,850 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $323,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $316,800 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $252,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOPAS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $216,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $215,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $161,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $150,250 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGILLWELL FOUNDATION: $143,715 over 5y, 10% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $124,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES: $100,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC: $59,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetSIMPLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $49,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC: $44,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $36,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMAGDALENE OMAHA INC: $30,200 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $25,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $21,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANEKO: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM HOUSE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING JOURNEYS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN POLICE REFORM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 SIMPLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…The Holland FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…Gilbert M and Martha …The Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Union Pacific Foundat…Nebraska Community Fo…Parker Family Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE73.8× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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