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Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$746k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$813kAnimals$794kReligion$759kHealth$457kArts & Culture$313kYouth Development$208kHousing & Shelter$193kRecreation & Sports$160kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRYAN FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$100,000
LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO$75,000
LAKE CUNNINGHAMA DEVELOPMENT TRUST$50,000
ESTES PARK HEALTH FOUNDATION$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
FRIENDSHIP HOME$18,992
TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM$18,992
LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO$15,496
LINCOLN LANCASTER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10k → 12%YWCA OF LINCOLN: $2k → 13%YWCA OF LINCOLN: $2k → 13%YWCA OF LINCOLN: $1k → 13%YWCA OF LINCOLN: $1k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $2k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $2k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $1k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $1k → 13%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $15k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 34 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
16

Total granted

$3.7M
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $758k · revenue +31%
  • OZ
    OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +5%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $27k
  • CY
    CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -34%
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.

1
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
2
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
3
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
4
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

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)…

Philanthropy
5
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
6
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
7
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Lincoln Behavioral 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…

Health
9
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center

To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.

Community Improvement
10
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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11
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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12
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 59 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEBRASKA DISTRICT OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH-MISSOURI SYNOD: $400,000 · OtherNEBRASKA DISTRICT OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH-MIS…LINCOLN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $250,000 · OtherLINCOLN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAVALLEY CHURCH: $106,500 · OtherVALLEY CHURCHTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $83,234 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $83,234 · OtherCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC: $73,000 · OtherST MARKS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $71,000 · Other+31 more: $528,359 · Other+31 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $758,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA…+2 more: $35,000 · EducationOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $500,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $291,618 · AnimalsLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOOEstes Park Medical Center Foundation: $170,000 · HealthEstes Park M…Bryan Foundation: $150,000 · HealthBryan Founda…HEALING KADI FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthHEALING KADI…The Tabitha Foundation Inc: $27,000 · HealthThe Tabitha …+2 more: $15,000 · HealthLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $83,233 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF LINCOLN: $8,323 · Human ServicesYWCA OF LINCOLN: $8,323 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FORT: $100,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,595,327Education$793,250Animals$791,618Health$442,000Environment$160,000Human Services$144,879Youth Development$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $758,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $291,618 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEstes Park Medical Center Foundation: $170,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $150,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetBryan Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD FORT: $100,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $83,233 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING KADI FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INC: $73,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES: $50,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION: $46,617 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $23,324 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT LIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLINIC WITH A HEART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START INC: $8,324 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF LINCOLN: $8,323 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF LINCOLN: $8,323 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MONICA'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 HOUSING CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • 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 LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN ↗
  • Who funds LIVING HISTORY FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEBRASKA LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗

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 Fou…The Ethel S Abbott Ch…Abel FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationKinder Porter Scott F…The Sherwood Foundati…Bettenhausen Family F…D F Dillon FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…Spreetail FoundationMoeller Charitable Tr…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE51.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $973k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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