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Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska at a glance

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Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska

Assist those with intellectual disabilities.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$357kRecreation & Sports$331kEducation$303kReligion$271kHuman Services$41kHousing & Shelter$22kPhilanthropy$21k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $159,820, the rows itemized in this filing. The $189,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,095 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$17,178
Median grant
1
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLA MARIE SCHOOL$41,388
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA$29,157
MOSAIC$22,695
ARC OF NEBRASKA$17,178
MADONNA ABILITY ALLIANCE$15,650
SMILE INC$11,834
BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING$10,959
UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA$10,959
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $11k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $11k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $11k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $11k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $11k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEM: $8k → 15%WINDSONG EQUITHERAPY: $9k → 13%DUETENCORE: $11k → 12%DUETENCORE: $8k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-30%

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterReligionHealthOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +91%
  • TA
    THE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +50% · 30% of their budget
  • M
    MOSAIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • VM
    Villa Maria School
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • WE
    WINDSONG EQUITHERAPY
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
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
Woodland Strides
Health
2
Mid-Nebraska Individual Services Inc

To provide a reasonable volume of developmentally disabled services to residents of the surrounding region who are or shall be diagnosed or thought to be developmentally disabled.

Human Services
3
Wings of Hope Therapeutic Riding Program Inc
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4
Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc

"to heal with horses" by offering nationally accredited, affordable, horse-centered therapies and experiences that bring strength, independence, confidence and joy to central oregonians of all ages and abilities.

Health
5
Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths

Provide therapeutic horsemanship to disabled individuals.

—
6
Exceptional Equestrians of the Missouri Valley Inc

Provide recreational and therapeutic riding on horseback for about 120 people with disabilities

Human Services
7
Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
8
Special Equestrians Inc

Special Equestrians provides therapeutic riding programs to individuals with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.

Recreation & Sports
9
Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship

By partnering with horses, we help people realize their individual potential through customized equine assisted services

—
10
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy

National center for equine facilitated training is dedicated to helping people with special needs reach beyond their boundaries through equine-assisted therapies, education, and research.

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11
Specialized Equine Services and Theraputic Riding

SES provides equine-based therapy to serve children, adults, and Veterans in Southern Illinois. In 2025, we provided 1,000 hours of equine therapy to participants from Southern Illinois.

Human Services
12
Special Equestrians Inc

To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc; the most unlike its peers is Knights of the Holy Eucharist Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADONNA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES: $233,568 · OtherMADONNA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICESTHE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC: $191,528 · OtherTHE ARC OF NEBRASKA INCVILLA MARIE SCHOOL: $95,314 · OtherVILLA MARIE SCHOOLVilla Maria School: $33,725 · OtherVilla Maria SchoolUNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $20,959 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $301,693 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INCSTEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN: $45,858 · Recreation & SportsSTEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING…MOSAIC: $147,028 · Housing & ShelterMOSAICSHELTERING TREE INC: $22,287 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERING TRE…KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST INC: $123,826 · ReligionKNIGHTS OF…BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $63,652 · Human ServicesDUET FOUNDATION: $19,004 · Human ServicesWINDSONG EQUITHERAPY: $9,000 · Human ServicesOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC: $37,752 · Health
Other$575,094Recreation & Sports$347,551Housing & Shelter$169,315Religion$123,826Human Services$91,656Health$37,752

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $301,693 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC: $191,528 over 9y, 30% of budgetMOSAIC: $147,028 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST INC: $123,826 over 4y, 14% of budgetBUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $63,652 over 6y, 21% of budgetSTEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN: $45,858 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC: $37,752 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSHELTERING TREE INC: $22,287 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $20,959 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDUET FOUNDATION: $19,004 over 2y, 12% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN ↗
  • Who funds OLLIE WEBB CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds DUET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDSONG EQUITHERAPY ↗

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.

Midlands Community Fo…Nebraska Community Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Midlands Community FoundationNE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midlands Community Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska?

    Find your warmest path to Knights of Columbus Intellectual Disabilities Foundation of Nebraska 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 14 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 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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