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LPIF Foundation

The mission of LPIF is to support low profile, high impact organizations in the inner city of Omaha and to educate donors about these organizations.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$81kHealth$64kHuman Services$54kInternational$45kCommunity Improvement$26kCrime & Legal$22kHousing & Shelter$21kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $17,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $138,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $121,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orel Alliance$10,000
Good Turn Labor$7,000
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 (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MOVING VETERANS FORWARD: $6k → 6%Good Turn Labor: $7k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $8k → 12%Orel Alliance: $10k → 12%Chariots 4 Hope: $9k → 12%BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY: $5k → 12%REFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $6k → 12%Refugee Women Rising: $6k → 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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 5 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
26

Total granted

$80k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+3%

Still filing today

40%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentCrime & LegalCommunity 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

  • GB
    GO BEYOND NEBRASKA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +67%
  • RE
    REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTER
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +13%
  • RW
    REFUGEE WOMEN RISING
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • MF
    Meyer Foundation for Disabili
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • RO
    Republic of South Sudan Leade
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • RO
    REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN LEADERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +44%
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Carole's House of Hope

Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…

Public Benefit
3
North Omaha Collective

To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.

Human Services
4
Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska

Justice for our neighbors-nebraska is a nonprofit organization welcoming immigrants into our communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal
6
Omaha ForUs Inc

Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.

Human Services
7
Elevate Omaha Inc

To create a platform to elevate youth voice and equip young people to become leaders who advocate for themselves and their peers, provide insight about youth-driven solutions, and fund possibility to pave the way to a better future.

Community Improvement
8
Raise the Wage Nebraska

Advocacy of policies to support Nebraskans.

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9
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
10
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

—
11
Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment Corporation

Creating and improving housing to open doors for economic opportunities.

Human Services
12
African Bridge Network

Career development resources for skilled immigrants.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc; the most unlike its peers is Republic of South Sudan Leaders. 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

23 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. 23 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Meyer Foundation for Disabili: $50,000 · OtherMeyer Foundation for DisabiliRepublic of South Sudan Leade: $40,000 · OtherRepublic of South Sudan LeadeGO BEYOND NEBRASKA: $25,000 · OtherGO BEYOND NEBRASKAYOUTH FOR GREATER GOOD: $15,000 · OtherYOUTH FOR GREATER GOODMORE THAN JUST A VILLAGE: $15,000 · OtherMORE THAN JUST A VILLAGEREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $12,500 · OtherREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTERFresh Start Program: $10,000 · OtherHoly Name School: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $52,500 · Other+9 moreREFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $12,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE WOMEN RIS…OREL ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesOREL ALLIANCECHARIOTS4HOPE INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesCHARIOTS4HOPE INCRESTORING DIGNITY: $7,500 · Human ServicesRESTORING DIGNITYGOOD TURN LABOR INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesGOOD TURN LABOR I…MOVING VETERANS FORWARD: $6,000 · Human ServicesMOVING VETERANS F…OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesOMAHA BRIDGES OUT…REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN LEADERS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentREPUBLIC OF…BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentBANISTER'S …THE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BIKE UN…Lift Up Sarpy County: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLift Up Sar…STUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS AT…LILY HAVEN: $8,000 · HealthCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthNORTH 24TH STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT D: $10,500 · Community ImprovementRISE ACADEMY: $10,000 · EmploymentMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$230,000Human Services$56,000Youth Development$35,500Health$13,000Community Improvement$10,500Employment$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGO BEYOND NEBRASKA: $25,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $12,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNORTH 24TH STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT D: $10,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARIOTS4HOPE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLILY HAVEN: $8,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRESTORING DIGNITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAGDALENE OMAHA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLift Up Sarpy County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationTodd and Mary Heistan…Weitz Family Foundati…Charles E Lakin Found…The Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…Immanuel Community Vi…Burlington Capital Fo…Mutual of Omaha Found…United Way of the Mid…The Hawks Foundation
The Sherwood FoundationNE45.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Hawks 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 LPIF Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from LPIF Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to LPIF Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to LPIF 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 34 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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