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Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe

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.

$202k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 25
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$202k12%
FY202424$165k25%
FY202325$171k8%
FY202221$169k24%
FY202122$155k18%
FY202020$151kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$492kArts & Culture$150kHuman Services$76kHousing & Shelter$51kAnimals$48kCommunity Improvement$38kRecreation & Sports$37kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stuhr Museum Foundation$60,00061%
Central Nebraska Humane Society$47,50063%
Hargis House Woman's Club$40,00039%
Hope Harbor Inc$26,00062%
Hall County Historical Society Inc$15,00025%
Grand Island Partnership for the Arts Inc$10,0001n/a
Literacy Council of Grand Island Inc$10,00024%
Third City Community Clinc Inc$10,0001n/a
Nebraska Humanities Council$7,00020%
Christmas Cheer$6,00062%
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All grantees of Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stuhr Museum Foundation$60,00061%
Central Nebraska Humane Society$47,50063%
Hargis House Woman's Club$40,00039%
Hope Harbor Inc$26,00062%
Hall County Historical Society Inc$15,00025%
Grand Island Partnership for the Arts Inc$10,0001n/a
Literacy Council of Grand Island Inc$10,00024%
Third City Community Clinc Inc$10,0001n/a
Nebraska Humanities Council$7,00020%
Christmas Cheer$6,00062%
Grand Island Music Series$5,000119%
Bryan Foundation$4,00040%
Grand Island Rifle Club$2,5001n/a
The Groundwater Foundation$1,0001n/a
Nebraska Dental Foundation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($767k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStuhr Museum Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCentral Nebraska Humane Society: $47,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetHargis House Woman's Club: $40,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetHope Harbor Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHall County Historical Society Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLiteracy Council of Grand Island Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNebraska Humanities Council: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChristmas Cheer: $6,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetGrand Island Music Series: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBryan Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Dental Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation IncNE28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Stchar E Charitable Foundation · Equitable Bank Charitable Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe

How much does Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe give?
Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe reported 26 grants totaling $201,825 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Stuhr Museum Foundation ($60k), Central Nebraska Humane Society ($48k), Hargis House Woman's Club ($40k).
Does Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc, Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati, Greater Grand Island Community Foundation.
Where is Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe based?
Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe is based in NE.

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 41 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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