· Private foundation
Joseph a Horwath 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $645k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE FKA DEFY VENTURES | $150,000 |
| COVENANT CEDARS BIBLE CAMP | $75,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEB | $75,000 |
| OMAHA FOR US | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP 4 HOPE | $60,000 |
| HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS | $50,000 |
| INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER | $50,000 |
| FIRST COVENANT CHURCH | $50,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $40,000 |
| SIENNA FRANCIS HOUSE | $40,000 |
| MONTESSORI COOP SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| THE YATES FUND | $20,000 |
| KALAHARI PEOPLES FUND | $15,000 |
| COMPASSION IN ACTION | $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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 81% of Joseph a Horwath Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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; $30k 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
- ISINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +104%
- SFSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +36%
- OFOmaha ForUs Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- TYTHE YATES FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
- COCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONone grant, 2024 · $60k
- GNGOOD NEWS PRISON MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
To resettle refugees in nebraska and provide them the support they need to thrive.
To support the mission of omaha home for boys.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
To create a platform to elevate youth voice and equip young people to become leaders who advocate for themselves and their peers, provide insight about youth-driven solutions, and fund possibility to pave the way to a better future.
Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…
The nebraska enterprise fund envisions a vibrant small business eco-system where every small and micro business has the opportunity to start, grow and prosper. the nebraska enterprise fund supports underserved communities by providing…
Our mission is to provide ownership opportunities through public and private partnerships, financing, and technical assistance. by working collaboratively, we aim to expand access to capital in underserved communities, empowering…
Hopespoke is dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of children and their families in the lincoln area and surrounding communities through effective and flexible therapeutic partnerships and a commitment to advocacy and positive…
None
To transform the lives of children, adults, and families impacted by mental health, trauma and intellectual disabilities. Our goal is to change problematic and systematic behaviors and thinking to provide a positive outcome for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ventures for Excellence Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds VENTURES FOR EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP 4 HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds Omaha ForUs Inc ↗
- Who funds YATES FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KALAHARI PEOPLES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRSPACES ↗
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: United Way of the Midlands · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community 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 Joseph a Horwath 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.