How much does Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation give?

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $263,680 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Philanthropy (14%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northstar Foundation ($194k), Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation ($180k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($115k).

Does Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Cooper Foundation, Abel Foundation.

Where is Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation based?

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation is based in NE.

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$264k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$56k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$379kPhilanthropy$314kYouth Development$281kEducation$239kRecreation & Sports$181kEnvironment$160kArts & Culture$130kHuman Services$128kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $77k
$10k–50k7 grants · $132k
$50k–250k1 grant · $56k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Lincoln Community Foundation	$55,500
Northstar Foundation	$26,500
Joslyn Art Museum	$25,000
The Malone Center	$25,000
Nebraska Game & Parks Foundation	$20,000
Educare Lincoln	$15,000
Michael J Fox Foundation	$10,000
Phi Delta Theta Foundation	$10,000
Osiri University Foundation	$5,000
Omaha Girls Rock	$5,000
Planned Parenthood of Lincoln NE	$5,000
Trails Have Our Respect (THOR)	$5,000
CUNY School of Professional Studies Foundation	$5,000
TORTA	$5,000
Peru State College Foundation	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 62 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+20%

Still filing today

63%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

NF
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $194k · revenue +27%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
8× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +479%
CI
CENTERPOINTE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $87k · revenue +70%

Funded once

LP
LINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $24k
LF
LPS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $10k
AP
A PRECIOUS CHILD INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -10%

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.

Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education

Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy

Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment

Urban League of 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…

Human Services

Leading Age Nebraska

The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.

Housing & Shelter

Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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Aclu Nebraska

For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…

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Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy

Nebraska State Bar Association

The mission of the nebraska state bar association (nsba) is "helping lawyers help people." the nebraska state bar association works for nebraska lawyers to help them achieve the highest standards of competence, ethics and professionalism…

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Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska; 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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 132 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/88

Grantees still filing

51/88

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,082,877Philanthropy$357,500Health$276,500Youth Development$242,300Arts & Culture$198,510Environment$180,000Education$124,000

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

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.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE67× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

22report 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.

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