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Lockwood Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CH | $9,000 |
| WNCC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES | $1,500 |
| OREGON TRAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MIDWEST THEATER | $1,500 |
| PLATTE INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| NE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUN | $1,200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,200 |
| NORTHFIELD HAVEN | $1,200 |
| YMCA | $1,100 |
| NEBRASKA SOCIETY OF CPAS FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| LEGACY OF THE PLAINS | $1,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LOLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +34%
- WNWESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +42%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- RDRIVERSIDE DISCOVERY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
- RZRIVERSIDE ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- DCDANIELS COLLEGE OF BUSINESSone grant, 2019 · $1k
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 foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
To work to secure private funding and advocate for the public funding at the state and federal levels to support the programs of the nebraska humanities council.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
The university of nebraska foundation grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Promote journalism in nebraska through scholarships, awards for excellence in journalism and support for journalism programs.
Support for community colleges
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Options Pregnancy Center. 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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 53 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 REGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RECORD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE NEBRASKA SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WEST SUMMER REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: Reardon - Mohr Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Quivey-Bay State Foundation · Oregon Trail Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Cw Yount Foundation Inc · The Fliesbach Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · G a Fliesbach Foundation · Abel 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 Lockwood 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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