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Kitty M Perkins Foundation at a glance

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Kitty M Perkins Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$605k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$840kHealth$671kPhilanthropy$668kRecreation & Sports$545kHousing & Shelter$330kCommunity Improvement$302kHuman Services$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
  • $250k+1 grant · $270k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEBRASKA LIONS FOUNDATION$5,000
BUTLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF MCCOOK: $50k → 12%MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY DAYCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Kitty M Perkins Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 96%.

Kitty M Perkins Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 24 repeat orgs$913k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
38

Total granted

$3.3M
$603k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+30%

Still filing today

58%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DU
    DOANE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $724k · revenue +7%
  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +11%
  • TL
    THE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM
    3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +130% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • YO
    YMCA OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • YO
    YMCA OF MCCOOK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -25%
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
Hastings Museum

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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2
Hastings Library Foundation

None

Education
3
Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.

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4
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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5
Nebraska Hospital Association Research and Educational Foundation

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…

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6
Nebraska Medical Foundation

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.

Health
7
Mahaska Hospital Foundation

Assist mahaska county hospital d/b/a mahaska health partnership in the process of providing healthcare to mahaska county.

Health
8
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
9
Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities

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.

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10
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
11
Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation

The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.

Arts & Culture
12
Hastings Masonic Temple Association

To preserve and maintain the masonic temple in hastings, ne.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hastings Community Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 68 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF CAMBRIDGE: $1,163,500 · OtherCITY OF CAMBRIDGENEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA: $165,000 · OtherNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA+40 more: $849,500 · Other+40 moreDOANE UNIVERSITY: $724,000 · EducationDOANE UNIVERSITYHASTINGS COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE+3 more: $59,500 · Education+3 moreHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $612,500 · PhilanthropyHASTINGS COMMUN…NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureHASTINGS MUS…THE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LISTENIN…MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NE…THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CA…+3 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTri Valley Medical Foundation: $507,000 · Community ImprovementTri Valley …YMCA OF MCCOOK: $50,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY DAYCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesGARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthThe Nebraska Medical Center: $15,000 · HealthFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $14,000 · HealthGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health
Other$2,178,000Education$888,500Philanthropy$662,500Arts & Culture$520,000Community Improvement$507,000Human Services$85,000Health$69,000

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 budgetDOANE UNIVERSITY: $724,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $612,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetTri Valley Medical Foundation: $507,000 over 9y, 44% of budgetHASTINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LISTENING ROOM INC DBA - THE LARK & THE LISTENING ROOM: $100,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetYMCA OF MCCOOK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNEBRASKA LIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOST11AMERICAN LEGION JR BASEBALL: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetOPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTORING WORKS: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHARVARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetPRAIRIE LOFT CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetInner City Impact: $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOST PLAYHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAUBURN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY DAYCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetWHITECLAY MAKERSPACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POST11AMERICAN LEGION JR BASEBALL ↗
  • Who funds OPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MENTORING WORKS ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE LOFT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…Lincoln Community Fou…Shoemaker Family Foun…LeRoy Thom Jean Thom …Hirschfeld Family Fou…Cooper FoundationNebraska Community Fo…The Spotts Trust Char…Johnson-Wissing Famil…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…The Graff Charitable …
The Sherwood FoundationNE39.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kitty M Perkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kitty M Perkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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

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    How do I get to Kitty M Perkins Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kitty M Perkins 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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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