· Private foundation
Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE BRYAN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO | $75,000 |
| ESTES PARK HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LAKE CUNNINGHAMA DEVELOPMENT TRUST | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| FOOD FORT | $40,000 |
| THE HEALING KADI FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,992 |
| TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM | $18,992 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME | $18,992 |
| LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO | $15,496 |
| LINCOLN LANCASTER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $758k · revenue +31%
- OZOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +5%
- LCLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UAUNL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $27k
- CYCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +35%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLNone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
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…
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
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…
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
Community development in lincoln, ne
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids Across America Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 60 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds Estes Park Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING KADI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds CLINIC WITH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
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 · The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Spreetail Foundation · Moeller Charitable Trust
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 Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc 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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