· Private foundation
Julie Morsman Schroeder 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 $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART | $50,000 |
| LAURITZEN GARDENS | $50,000 |
| OPERA OMAHA INC | $50,000 |
| NEBRASKA LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| OMAHA'S HENRY DOORLY ZOO AND AQUARIUM | $46,000 |
| SPRING CREEK PRAIRIE AUDUBON | $30,000 |
| OMAHA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST | $10,000 |
| HERON HAVEN NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET | $5,000 |
| KVNO | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MOMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +168%
- OZOMAHA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $97k · revenue +14%
- OCOmaha Children's Museum6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- TWTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +79%
- TNTHE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -28%
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 excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater, find their voices, and enrich their communities. theater is utilized as a tool in the educational and social development of young people to provide formal…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Mission statement of the midwest museum: encouraging our community's appreciation of natural history using shared experiences through collections, exhibits, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opera Omaha Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ballet Nebraska. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BALLET NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE ↗
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 · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Iowa West Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lauritzen Foundation · Allan and Ann Mactier Charitable Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund
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 Julie Morsman Schroeder 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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