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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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$582k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%Open Door Mission: $6k → 12%Little Sisters of the Poor: $5k → 15%Open Door Mission: $5k → 12%Little Sisters of the Poor: $3k → 15%Open Door Mission: $3k → 12%Boys Town: $10k → 12%Open Door Mission: $3k → 12%Boys Town: $10k → 12%Boys Town: $10k → 12%Boys Town: $8k → 12%Boys Town: $8k → 12%Open Door Mission: $2k → 12%Boys Town: $6k → 12%Boys Town: $6k → 12%Open Door Mission: $1k → 12%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Omaha Home For Boys: $3k → 12%Omaha Home For Boys: $3k → 12%Omaha Home For Boys: $3k → 12%Essential Pregnancy Services: $3k → 12%Essential Pregnancy Services: $3k → 12%Essential Pregnancy Services: $3k → 12%Omaha Home For Boys: $2k → 12%Omaha Home For Boys: $2k → 12%YMCA of Greater Omaha: $500 → 12%YMCA of Greater Omaha: $250 → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$738k · 47 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
20

Total granted

$738k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-6%

Still filing today

28%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +40%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +145%
  • PH
    Polish Home Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • FA
    FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -6%
  • VD
    VALLEY DAYS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -75%
  • HC
    Harrison County Flood Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Planned Parenthood Voters of Nebraska

Planned parenthood voters of nebraska inspires and engages nebraskans to take up the cause of reproductive rights, health, education, and related topics through education, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.

2
Essentia Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
3
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc

To provide, promote and protect reproductive and sexual health through health services, education and advocacy.

Health
4
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

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…

Health
5
Saint Peter's University Hospital

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…

Health
6
Marian University

To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.

Education
7
St Mary's University

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.

8
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc

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…

Human Services
9
The Nebraska Medical Center

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.

Health
10
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

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…

Health
11
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
12
Good Counsel Inc

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,…

Human Services

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild and Family ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Faith-Based Senior LivingCancer Support OrganizationsYmca Community CentersLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Pregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number15%0%<5yr10%3%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr17%13%35–55yr24%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value15%0%<5yr10%7%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr17%10%35–55yr24%71%55yr+

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
8%
1,067/14,079

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EWTN Global Catholic Network — $49,000 · OtherEWTN Global Catholic NetworkIndividual grant recipient — $48,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Stanislaus — $25,500 · OtherHarrison County Flood Fund — $25,000 · OtherMADONNA SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES — $24,500 · OtherCatholic Charities — $23,500 · OtherPolish Home Inc — $21,000 · OtherNEWMAN CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER OF IOWA CITY IOWA — $20,500 · OtherSt Patricks Grade School — $20,000 · OtherSt John Paul II Catholic Newman Cen — $19,500 · Other+46 more — $300,575 · Other+46 moreFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $58,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanaga…OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $19,500 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISS…THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS — $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE OMAHA HOME…EPS ESSENTIAL PREGNANCY SERVICES INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesEPS ESSENTIAL …Little Sisters of The Poor — $7,000 · Human ServicesLittle Sisters…+2 more — $1,750 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $42,500 · HealthANGELS AMONG US — $9,000 · Health+1 more — $20 · HealthFREMONT AREA UNITED WAY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyVALLEY DAYS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterPOLISH HERITAGE CENTER INC — $19,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$577,575Human Services$107,250Health$51,520Philanthropy$32,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Housing & Shelter$21,000Arts & Culture$19,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $58,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREMONT AREA UNITED WAY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVALLEY DAYS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPolish Home Inc — $21,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE CENTER INC — $19,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS — $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AMONG US — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEPS ESSENTIAL PREGNANCY SERVICES INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Sisters of The Poor — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATL SONS OF AMVETS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Bnsf Railway FoundationTX16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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