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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.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$206kEducation$85kHousing & Shelter$71kPhilanthropy$43kInternational$40kHealth$38kYouth Development$36kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $84,688, the rows itemized in this filing. The $120,909 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,221 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$33,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAUNCH LEADERSHIP$35,771
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL$33,500
THE DICTIONARY PROJECT$15,417
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUTHERAN FAMILIY SERVICES: $35k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 3 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$311k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LP
    LINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $206k
  • TD
    THE DICTIONARY PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue -33%
  • GL
    GREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • H
    HOPESPOKE
    one grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue -3%
  • LF
    LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • LC
    LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +54%
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 University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
2
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

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

Philanthropy
3
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
4
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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6
Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries Inc

To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.

Employment
7
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
8
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
9
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

—
10
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

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

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11
Lutheran Family Services Foundation Inc

To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.

Human Services
12
Lincoln Total Community Action Inc

Early childhood development.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION: $205,812 · OtherLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATIONROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $33,500 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $18,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDE…+2 more: $12,700 · OtherTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $85,365 · EducationTHE DICTIONARY PROJECTLAUNCH LEADERSHIP INC: $35,771 · EducationLAUNCH LEADERSHIP INCLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $63,390 · PhilanthropyLincoln Comm…HOPESPOKE: $38,000 · HealthLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $33,250 · Housing & ShelterGREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$270,012Education$121,136Philanthropy$63,390Health$38,000Human Services$35,000Housing & Shelter$33,250Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $85,365 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $63,390 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPESPOKE: $38,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAUNCH LEADERSHIP INC: $35,771 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $33,250 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER LINCOLN CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $18,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Nebraska Community Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…Assurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…First Interstate Banc…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Nebraska Community FoundationNE15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lincoln Rotary Club 14 Foundation 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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