· Private foundation
Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $517k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB MIDLANDS | $158,250 |
| MORNING STAR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $126,907 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $113,500 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $68,500 |
| BROWNELL TALBOT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION (UNMC) | $34,738 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $19,700 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $15,500 |
| THE DURHAM MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY | $10,000 |
| TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| LAURITZEN GARDENS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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; $77k 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
- COCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +67%
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +174%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROSE THEATREone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TTEAMMATESone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc and the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 104 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SIMON KEITH 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: The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation
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 Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins 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.