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Lute Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
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 2024.

Education$466kPublic Safety & Disaster$261kPhilanthropy$193kHealth$78kRecreation & Sports$69kArts & Culture$18kCommunity Improvement$10kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,744
Median grant
1
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB$11,085
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$3,295
ROTARY CLUB OF OGALLALA$1,744
ST LUKES SCHOOL$822
NORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOW$381
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%WALLACE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $48k → 12%LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 13%NEBRASKA FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%KEITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $26k → 12%LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 13%OGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $3k → 13%CITY OF OGALLALA: $73k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%HEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY: $64k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%CITY OF OGALLALA: $63k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%OGALLALA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $52k → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $50k → 11%GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%OGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $33k → 11%OGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $31k → 11%HEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY: $26k → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $11k → 11%SANDHILL CRISIS INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $10k → 11%OGALLALAKEITH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8k → 11%KEITH COUNTY: $8k → 11%OGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $6k → 11%OGALLALA PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%OGALLALA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%PETRIFIED WOOD & ART GALLERY: $3k → 11%KEITH-ARTHUR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE KENFIELD GALLERY: $3k → 11%KEITH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $3k → 11%VARIOUS: $2k → 11%PETRIFIED WOOD & ART GALLERY: $2k → 11%ROTARY CLUB OF OGALLALA: $2k → 11%OGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE KENFIELD GALLERY: $2k → 11%OGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $1k → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $1k → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $827 → 11%ST LUKES SCHOOL: $822 → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $782 → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $750 → 11%BIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $750 → 11%KEITH COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $730 → 11%ST LUKES SCHOOL: $503 → 11%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$816k · 13 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$816k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+144%
+56%

Still filing today

23%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • OL
    OGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $302k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $136k
  • HP
    HEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $90k · revenue -62% · 70% of their budget

Funded once

  • KC
    KEITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • WR
    WALLACE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
  • SC
    SANDHILLS CRISIS INTERVENTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +43%
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Northern Plains Heritage Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
4
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
—
5
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
6
Mutual of Omaha Foundation
Philanthropy
7
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
—
8
Kearney County Community Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
9
Grassland Heritage Foundation

The foundation promotes the value of tallgrass prairies

—
10
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame in

Education and preservation of western heritage

Arts & Culture
11
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Nebraska State Fair 1868 Foundation

The mission of the nebraska state fair 1868 foundation is to raise funds and resources for the overall improvement of the nebraska state fair.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ogallalakeith County Chamber of Commerce. 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

17 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. 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $301,676 · OtherOGALLALA LIBRARY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $135,554 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKEITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherKEITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY INC: $89,979 · OtherHEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY INCOGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $72,017 · OtherOGALLALA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTBIG MAC SPORTS CLUB: $66,154 · OtherBIG MAC SPORTS CLUBWALLACE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $47,795 · OtherWALLACE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT+14 more: $43,066 · OtherNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA C…+3 more: $1,350 · PhilanthropyGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $67,266 · HealthSANDHILLS CRISIS INTERVENTION: $10,000 · HealthOGALLALA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60,977 · Education+2 more: $1,400 · EducationNebraska Firefighters Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE KENFIELD GALLERY: $4,205 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $200 · Environment
Other$856,241Philanthropy$101,350Health$77,266Education$62,377Arts & Culture$9,455Environment$200

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 budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND PHILANTHROPY INC: $89,979 over 2y, 70% of budgetGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $67,266 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetOGALLALA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60,977 over 4y, 47% of budgetSANDHILLS CRISIS INTERVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOGALLALAKEITH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNebraska Firefighters Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KENFIELD GALLERY: $4,205 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetKEITH - ARTHUR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,802 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE KEARNEY AREA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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…First Interstate Banc…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Nebraska Community FoundationNE19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Lute Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lute Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lute Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lute Family 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 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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