· Private foundation
May L Flanagan Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIUS X FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST TERESA SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $10,000 |
| VILLA MARIE HOME & SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MADONNA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC | $6,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE RISEN CHRIST SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| THE TABITHA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE | $5,000 |
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, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TMTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +87%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +20%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- RMRABBLE MILLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +95%
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 help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Community development in lincoln, ne
To provide educational enrichment programs that develop and support youth in overcoming social and economic barriers to achievement. this mission is accomplished through college access and college success programs.
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…
To promote credit unions in nebraska
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rabble Mill. 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 44 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds Tabitha Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MONICA'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Foundation · Abel Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Donlan Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family 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 May L Flanagan Foundation Inc 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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