· Private foundation
Kitty M Perkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $270,000 |
| DOANE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| TRI-VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DOANE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| GARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA | $25,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE PARK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| BUTLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA LIONS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Kitty M Perkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $724k · revenue +7%
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE4× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +11%
- TLTHE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +130% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HASTINGSone grant, 2023 · $50k
- YOYMCA OF MCCOOKone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -25%
- YOYMCA OF HASTINGS NEBRASKAone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
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To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.
Support for community colleges
To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…
To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.
Assist mahaska county hospital d/b/a mahaska health partnership in the process of providing healthcare to mahaska county.
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.
To preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is POST11AMERICAN Legion Jr Baseball. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 68 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 DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tri Valley Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MCCOOK ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POST11AMERICAN LEGION JR BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MENTORING WORKS ↗
- Who funds HARVARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE LOFT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Shoemaker Family Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff
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 Kitty M Perkins 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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