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Mammel Family Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious purposes by supporting the Omaha Community Foundation's mission.

$25M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$30MArts & Culture$19MCommunity Improvement$6.0MPhilanthropy$3.0MHealth$2.6MEnvironment$1.5MHuman Services$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $810,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,969,184 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,159,184 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alexandria Area YMCA$500,000
Animal Protection New Mexico$200,000
Alliance for the Great Lakes$50,000
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc$15,000
American Cancer Society$15,000
American Midwest Ballet$10,000
Amplify Arts$10,000
Antique Boat Museum$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Alexandria Area YMCA: $500k → 9%Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta: $7k → 12%Youth Frontiers Inc: $50k → 12%Youth Frontiers Inc: $25k → 12%PGA Reach Nebraska: $50k → 13%Food Depot: $18k → 12%Assistance Dogs of the West: $25k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $250k → 12%Project Houseworks: $100k → 12%Together Inc of Metro Omaha: $50k → 12%Project Houseworks: $50k → 12%Together Inc: $25k → 12%Heartland Hope Mission: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
NY
SD
IA
PA
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$51M · 54 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
69

Total granted

$51M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+24%

Still filing today

91%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $28M · revenue +31%
  • OP
    OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $13M · revenue +65% · 29% of their budget
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • DR
    DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $6.0M · revenue -89%
  • CS
    CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +273% · 38% of their budget
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

—
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
Lincoln Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture
5
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
7
Opera Omaha Inc

Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.

Arts & Culture
8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

—
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Construc…Immigrant Worker SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …School District FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsSenior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number15%1%<5yr10%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr17%25%35–55yr24%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value15%1%<5yr10%26%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr15%46%20–35yr17%9%35–55yr24%14%55yr+

The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/130
the rest of the field
8%
1,067/13,982

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.

04the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 130 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/120
Grantees still filing
85/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $28,094,723 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION+14 more — $1,475,000 · EducationOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY — $13,050,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $2,547,700 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUM+19 more — $2,322,050 · Arts & Culture+19 moreDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST — $6,000,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN R…+2 more — $50,913 · Community ImprovementCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyVETERANS TRUST — $250,000 · PhilanthropyEvanston Community Foundation — $240,000 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $215,400 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community Foundation — $135,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $230,000 · PhilanthropyMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · HealthALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC — $150,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 · Health+8 more — $145,000 · HealthYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore — $225,000 · OtherThe American College Foundation — $200,100 · OtherOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST — $200,000 · OtherBELLEVUE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherAlexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association — $500,000 · OtherAlexandri…KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $250,000 · OtherNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $533,333 · OtherNORTHSTAR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $300,000 · OtherRISE ACADEMY — $300,000 · OtherANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO — $222,500 · OtherNO MORE EMPTY POTS — $225,000 · Other+54 more — $2,471,385 · Other+54 moreOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $1,050,900 · EnvironmentKEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN — $100,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $75,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,109 · Environment
Education$29,569,723Arts & Culture$17,919,750Community Improvement$6,050,913Philanthropy$3,070,400Health$2,395,000Other$5,627,318Environment$1,341,009

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $28,094,723 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY — $13,050,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $2,547,700 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc — $1,050,900 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST — $800,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $550,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $533,333 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetAlexandria Area Young Men's Christian Association — $500,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetKindair at the Benson Theatre — $310,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetRISE ACADEMY — $300,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS — $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO — $276,035 over 2y, 18% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $270,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $260,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVETERANS TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation — $240,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNO MORE EMPTY POTS — $225,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore — $225,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO — $222,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $215,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe American College Foundation — $200,100 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBellevue University — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST — $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOLLEGE AND CAREER PLAZA — $179,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetALS IN THE HEARTLAND INC — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS — $150,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LAKES MARITIME SOCIETY — $144,165 over 2y, 15% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation — $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST — $125,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre — $110,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetKEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC — $110,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $105,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $61,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…The Holland FoundationThe Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Nebraska Community Fo…Suzanne & Walter Scot…Gilbert M and Martha …Union Pacific Foundat…
Robert B Daugherty FoundationNE100× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Union Pacific 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 Mammel Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mammel Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mammel Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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