· 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 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $645k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE FKA DEFY VENTURES | $150,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEB | $75,000 |
| COVENANT CEDARS BIBLE CAMP | $75,000 |
| OMAHA FOR US | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP 4 HOPE | $60,000 |
| INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER | $50,000 |
| HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS | $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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 81% of Joseph a Horwath Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 19%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SCSTEPHEN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +37%
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 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 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 STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YATES FUND ↗
- Who funds KALAHARI PEOPLES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRSPACES ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph a Horwath Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph a Horwath Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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