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Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SEEING EYE | $15,000 |
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $10,750 |
| THE WAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN SANTA COP | $5,000 |
| MARY LANNING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH | $4,750 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT | $2,500 |
| NEBRASKA DEVO | $2,500 |
| WHITE CANE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| MORNING HOPE | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 25 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- LCLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +154%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +57%
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +511%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LWLiving Word Academyone grant, 2018 · $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 help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Community development in lincoln, ne
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Children & Families Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue. 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 38 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 100 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 Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Rogers Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Acklie Charitable 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 Kinder Porter Scott 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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