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Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Boys Town | $10,000 |
| St Patricks Grade School | $5,000 |
| Newman Catholic Student Center | $4,000 |
| Polish Heritage Center | $4,000 |
| St Stanislaus | $4,000 |
| St Stephen the Martyr | $4,000 |
| Goodfellows | $3,500 |
| Food Bank of Lincoln | $3,000 |
| Targeted Adult Service Coordination | $3,000 |
| Cross Catholic Outreach | $3,000 |
| St Cecelia Cathedral Grade School | $3,000 |
| Angels Among Us | $3,000 |
| St John Paul II Catholic Newman Cen | $2,500 |
| Knights of Columbus | $2,030 |
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 (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +29% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +40%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +145%- PHPolish Home Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- FAFREMONT AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -6%
- VDVALLEY DAYS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -75%
- HCHarrison County Flood Fundone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
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We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.
To provide, promote and protect reproductive and sexual health through health services, education and advocacy.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
Keeping faith with the teachings of the roman catholic church and guided by the bishop of metuchen, saint peter's university hospital is committed to humble service to humanity, especially the poor, through competence and good stewardship…
To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
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Good counsel, inc. is a not-for-profit organization rooted in the first principles of catholic morality concerning the dignity of every human person. good counsel recognizes the dignity of god-given life from the moment of conception,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Sisters of the Poor and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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 63 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 71 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 Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Polish Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds POLISH HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA 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: Bnsf Railway Foundation · CKBN Charitable Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation · Physicians Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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 Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust 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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