· Private foundation
Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY | $60,000 |
| NEBRASKA CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $24,500 |
| CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY | $20,000 |
| KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| NEBRASKA CITY MUSUEM ASSOCATION | $10,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,500 |
| CIVIL WAR VETERANS MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA CITY HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA CITY FAST PITCH SOFTBALL | $5,000 |
| BLUE STAR MOTHERS OF AMERICA CHAPTER NE1 | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- COCITY OF NEBRASKA CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $386k
- NCNEBRASKA CITY COMM FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $208k
- NCNEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- NCNEBRASKA CITY VETERAN'S BUILDINGone grant, 2021 · $20k
- PSPeru State College Foundationone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -38%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKAone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -13%
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.
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.
Support the activities of the nebraska arts council and the nebraska humanities council doing business as humanities nebraska.
The mission of the nebraska state fair 1868 foundation is to raise funds and resources for the overall improvement of the nebraska state fair.
The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.
The nebraska chamber of commerce & industry (the chamber) is a statewide business organization established to maintain and improve the economic progress and business climate of the state of nebraska. the chamber was organized to promote,…
The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kregel Windmill Factory Museum. 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 62 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 NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CITY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Peru State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kropp Charitable Foundation Inc · Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc · The Steinhart Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · D F Dillon Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family 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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