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Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation
The mission of the LINCOLN ROTARY CLUB 14 FOUNDATION is to support the service initiatives of lincoln rotary club 14.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $84,688 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,909 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,221 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUNCH LEADERSHIP | $35,771 |
| ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $33,500 |
| THE DICTIONARY PROJECT | $15,417 |
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 (FY24–24, $35k) 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- LPLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $206k
- TDTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue -33%
- GLGREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- HHOPESPOKEone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue -3%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INCone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
- LCLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +54%
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Community development in lincoln, ne
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
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…
To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.
Early childhood development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties and the most unlike its peers is Trinity United Methodist Church Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION 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: Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation 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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