· Private foundation
Kristen Lawless-Gustafson Family 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.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RONCALLI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CUES SCHOOL SYSTEM | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 +480% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HCHASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue -20%
- TGTHE GIVING LAKE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2021 · $335k
- CSCUES SCHOOL SYSTEM3× · 2019–2025 · $76k
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2019 · $20k
- AHALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +34%
- RSRBP South Omaha Scholastic Fund Incone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
The nebraska cancer specialists (ncs) hope foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the lives of individuals and families in the community and the surrounding areas who are impacted by cancer treatment.
The mission of the omaha home for boys is to support and strengthen youth, young adults, and families through services that inspire and equip them to lead independent and productive lives.
The university of nebraska foundation grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.
Habitat omaha brings people together to build homes and communities in a five-county area of eastern nebraska through its mission: we build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. all habitat omaha services are provided…
To provide shelter to lost and homeless animals, to educate the community about the humane care and treatment of all animals, to advocate animal welfare and to further the bond between people and animals.
To support first-time home buyers in nebraska, with an emphasis on low and moderate income individuals and communities. the foundation also works to offer housing relief to communities affected by natural disasters.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
To discover individuals with exceptional capacity to positively influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of others; to explore the dimensions of human leadership and ways in which this potential can be maximized; to develop…
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 HASTINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEGENT HEALTH-IMMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RBP South Omaha Scholastic Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS 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.
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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 Kristen Lawless-Gustafson Family 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.