· Private foundation
Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northstar Foundation | $27,300 |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $25,000 |
| Nebraska Game & Parks Foundation | $20,000 |
| The Malone Center | $20,000 |
| Educare Lincoln | $15,000 |
| Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools | $12,500 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of Lincoln | $10,000 |
| Visionary Youth | $10,000 |
| Lincoln Literacy | $7,500 |
| Trails Have Our Respect (THOR) | $7,500 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Lincoln NE | $5,000 |
| Fitting Futures | $5,000 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | $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 (FY18–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $168k · revenue +27%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +313%- CICENTERPOINTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- LPLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $24k
- LFLPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- APA PRECIOUS CHILD INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -10%
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 lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is South County Community Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 123 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 Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN YOUTH COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY YOUTH ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Spreetail Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Pegler Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation
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 Lee and Debbie Stuart 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.
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