· Private foundation
May L Flanagan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VILLA MARIE HOME & SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MADONNA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE RISEN CHRIST SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC | $6,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| THE TABITHA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization May L Flanagan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from May L Flanagan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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