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Kosman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$137kEnvironment$127kRecreation & Sports$24kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$16kPublic Benefit$11kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLATTE RIVER BASIS ENVIRONMENTS$25,000
AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI$10,000
COZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$9,000
TEAMMATES$3,500
CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD$3,500
WILSON PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,500
FLORIDA SPRINGS FOUNDATION$2,500
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$2,500
ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM$2,500
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$2,500
OUR SANTA FE RIVER INC$2,500
ALACHUA CO LIBRARY FOUNDATION$2,500
10-42 CORPORATION$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION$2,000
TRI FAITH INITIATIVE$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%FRIEND'S OF THE MW THEATER: $3k → 16%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $3k → 14%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $10k → 19%COZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $3k → 14%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $10k → 19%COZAD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $2k → 14%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $8k → 19%COZAD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $8k → 19%COZAD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $7k → 19%COZAD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $5k → 19%COZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%AL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $3k → 19%WILSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4k → 12%FREINDS OF ELEMENTARY ARTS: $2k → 19%CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD: $4k → 12%TEAMMATES: $4k → 12%ALACHUA CO LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%TEAMMATES: $4k → 12%FLORIDA SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%TEAMMATES: $4k → 12%ALACHUA COLIBRARY: $2k → 19%TEAMMATES: $3k → 12%ALACHUA COLIBRARY: $2k → 19%TEAMMATES: $3k → 12%ALACHUA CO LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%TEAMMATES: $3k → 12%FLORIDA SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD: $3k → 12%ALACHUA COLIBRARY: $2k → 19%WILSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 12%FLORIDA SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%TEAMMATES: $3k → 12%ALACHUA CO LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 19%ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM: $3k → 12%ALACHUA COLIBRARY: $2k → 19%WILSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2k → 12%10-42 CORPORATION: $3k → 19%CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD: $2k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$359k · 19 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$359k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+36%

Still filing today

32%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • PR
    PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +347%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +85%
  • RH
    ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • EF
    EPILEPSY FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +36%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -35%
  • CC
    COMECA CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Conservation Endowment Fund
Environment
2
Cozad Development Foundation

To create strategies that enhance economic opportunity and quality of life for cozad residents while ensuring a vibrant framework for the future.

Community Improvement
3
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

—
4
Cozad Community Foundation

Cozad community foundation strengthens and promotes our community by creating opportunities for giving to projects dedicated to the needs of cozad

Human Services
5
Creative Plains Foundation
—
6
National Council for Preservation Education
—
7
University Foundation
—
8
Columbia Waterfront Park Foundation Inc
—
9
Zigler Museum Foundation
—
10
The Foundation for the Preservation of the History of the Jewish People in
Arts & Culture
11
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
—
12
CO2 Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cozad Public Schools Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRO: $62,000 · OtherPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIROAL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNI: $50,500 · OtherAL MEBANE HIGHSCHOOL ALUMNICOZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $47,000 · OtherCOZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONTEAMMATES: $22,500 · OtherTEAMMATESCHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD: $16,500 · OtherCHARITABLE FUND OF COZADFLORIDA SPRINGS FOUNDATION: $14,500 · OtherWILSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,500 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $11,000 · Other+10 more: $40,500 · Other+10 morePLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN: $60,000 · EnvironmentPLATTE RIVER BASIN …+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY: $8,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $6,000 · Religion
Other$277,000Environment$62,000Education$12,500Arts & Culture$9,500Religion$6,000

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 budgetPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN: $60,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCOZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetCHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD: $16,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY: $8,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURRENT PROBLEMS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEPILEPSY FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN ↗
  • Who funds COZAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE FUND OF COZAD ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT HENRI MUSEUM & HISTORICAL WALKWAY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURRENT PROBLEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Epilepsy Florida Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Kosman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kosman 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 25 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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