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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.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$112kArts & Culture$76kEducation$52kHealth$52kCrime & Legal$47kHuman Services$40kAnimals$27kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEBRASKA DEVO$2,500
CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT$2,500
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$2,000
WHITE CANE FOUNDATION$2,000
LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL$1,000
MORNING HOPE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIGHTHOUSE: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 30 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
39

Total granted

$270k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +154%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +57%
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +511%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • LW
    Living Word Academy
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
2
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
3
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
4
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
5
Lincoln Animal Ambassadors

To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.

Animals
6
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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7
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
9
Aclu Nebraska

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,…

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10
Urban League of Nebraska

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…

Human Services
11
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
12
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Children & Families Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLINCOLN SANTA COP: $15,000 · OtherLINCOLN SANTA COPCommunity Action Partnership of Lancaster County: $12,750 · OtherCommunity Action Partnership of Lancaster …Make A Wish Foundation: $12,000 · OtherMake A Wish FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $10,000 · OtherLiving Word Academy: $10,000 · OtherGet R Done Foundation: $6,500 · OtherBryan Foundation: $15,000 · OtherBryan Foundation+57 more: $77,000 · Other+57 moreLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $94,570 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundat…WAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…+4 more: $7,600 · Philanthropy+4 moreLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $27,900 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CHILDRE…GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,250 · Arts & CultureGRAND ISLAND CH…LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $17,500 · Arts & CultureLUX CENTER FOR …+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $30,850 · EducationUNIVERSIT…NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationNEBRASKA …+2 more: $1,250 · EducationLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $34,750 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATION: $1,750 · Crime & LegalTHE SEEING EYE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF LINCOLN: $5,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $4,750 · Human ServicesYMCA OF LINCOLN: $3,800 · Human Services+3 more: $1,750 · Human ServicesLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $20,000 · AnimalsCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,600 · AnimalsSADIE DOG FUND: $1,000 · Animals+3 more: $1,500 · Animals
Other$188,250Philanthropy$112,170Arts & Culture$67,650Education$42,100Crime & Legal$36,500Human Services$30,300Animals$24,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $94,570 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $34,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $30,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $27,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,250 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBryan Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF LINCOLN: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $4,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME PROJECT: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF LINCOLN: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFITTING FUTURES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLINIC WITH A HEART INC: $1,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA SPORTS COUNCIL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOURNING HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSADIE DOG FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOODS INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA NO KILL CANINE RESCUE: $750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEWING FOR BABIES INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Bryan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FITTING FUTURES ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…Rogers FoundationBettenhausen Family F…D F Dillon FoundationSpreetail FoundationDuncan Family TrustLienemann Charitable …Acklie Charitable Fou…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE67.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 96 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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