· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of KAUFMANN-CUMMINGS FOUNDATION C/0 RICHARD RABE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND | $24,000 |
| GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND | $20,000 |
| NE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FDTN | $13,000 |
| HARGIS HOUSE WOMEN'S CLUB | $12,500 |
| YMCA | $12,500 |
| NORTHWEST HIGH SCH EDUC FDTN | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EPIC DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUN | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND | $10,000 |
| THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| MID-AMERICA COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDAT | $5,325 |
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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- SMSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +29%
- CNCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +36%
- HHHOPE HARBOR INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GIGRAND ISLAND PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CHCHI HEALTH ST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 preserve and celebrate the rich history of marshall county, iowa
To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…
The mission of the huron county community foundation is to provide for the enrichment of the quality life in huron county by developing a permanent endowment to assess and respond to changing community needs and by serving as a charitable…
The harvard community foundation is dedicated to the future by encouraging donations for social, cultural, and educational progress in harvard, nebraska.
Provide and showcase historical information about Seward County.
To collect, preserve and interpret the history of carver county. to preserve and interpret the andrew peterson farm through the lens of minnesota's rich immigrant and agricultural history.
To work to secure private funding and advocate for the public funding at the state and federal levels to support the programs of the nebraska humanities council.
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
The mission of the grand rapids public library foundation is to provide fund raising and advocacy support for the grand rapids public library. the foundation assists the board of library commissioners in providing quality services to the…
To provide and maintain a museum dedicated to local history.
Preserve artifacts and information regarding the history of saunders county nebraska and educate citizens about the social, economic, cultural and political history of saunders county
To provide for the people of grundy county, illinois a museum building, collection, and preservation of historical data, records, and artifacts of its people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Nebraska Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Grand Island Music Series. 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 41 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 STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARGIS HOUSE WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
- Who funds Grand Island Music Series ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDWATER 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: 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
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 Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe 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.