· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St Stephen the Martyr | $4,000 |
| Polish Heritage Center | $4,000 |
| St Stanislaus | $4,000 |
| Goodfellows | $3,500 |
| Targeted Adult Service Coordination | $3,000 |
| Angels Among Us | $3,000 |
| St Cecelia Cathedral Grade School | $3,000 |
| Cross Catholic Outreach | $3,000 |
| Food Bank of Lincoln | $3,000 |
| St John Paul II Catholic Newman Cen | $2,500 |
| Knights of Columbus | $2,030 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- HCHarrison County Flood Fundone grant, 2019 · $25k
- VDVALLEY DAYS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -75%
- FAFREMONT AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -6%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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,…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- 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 ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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