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Medica Health Plans at a glance

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Medica Health Plans

To be the trusted health plan of choice for customers, members, partners and our employees.

$3.5M
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$25MHousing & Shelter$65kHuman Services$55kArts & Culture$25kCivil Rights$25kCrime & Legal$20kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$972M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICA FOUNDATION$3,500,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE HUB CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $10k → 13%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA: $20k → 12%FOSTER CARE CLOSET: $25k → 13%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $25k → 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 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.

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Nebraska Children's Home Society Inc

The nebraska children's home society mission is to provide compassionate support, enduring connections, and innovative solutions that help familities thrive.

Human Services
2
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services
3
Children's Home Society of South Dakota

Children's home society of south dakota is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing trauma-informed services to children and families impacted by abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and mental health challenges. our mission is to…

Human Services
4
Centerpointe Inc

Our mission is to help the people we serve get better, sooner, for longer. centerpointe serves some of the most vulnerable in our communities who have co-occuring mental and physical health diagnoses, and who are experiencing or at risk of…

Health
5
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
6
Alegent Health-Immanuel Medical Center

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

Health
7
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services
8
Kvc Behavioral Healthcare Nebraska Inc

It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.

Health
9
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
10
Foundation 2 Inc

Foundation 2, inc. is a not-for-profit human service agency that offers crisis prevention and intervention programs to people of all ages. we are committed to positive youth development, suicide prevention and helping build the foundation…

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Chi Nebraska

Chi nebraska improves health care access and fosters community wellness through affiliated hospitals, physicians, and supporting entities, dedicated to providing high quality service with a caring touch.

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12
Regional West Medical Center

We are committed to advancing the health and wellness of the individuals and communities we are honored to serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Housing Omaha; the most unlike its peers is Rise Academy. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDICA FOUNDATION: $23,300,000 · HealthMEDICA FOUNDATION+4 more: $263,530 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT: $1,386,330 · Other+4 more: $75,000 · OtherFOSTER CARE CLOSET: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureRISE ACADEMY: $20,000 · EmploymentCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHEALTHY HOUSING OMAHA: $15,000 · Environment
Health$23,563,530Other$1,461,330Human Services$80,000Arts & Culture$25,000Employment$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Environment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDICA FOUNDATION: $23,300,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT: $1,386,330 over 5y, 23% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALEGENT HEALTH - BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM: $108,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE CLOSET: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBryan Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY HOUSING OMAHA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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…The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationLincoln Community Fou…Hirschfeld Family Fou…United Way of the Mid…Cooper FoundationSpreetail FoundationLeland J & Dorothy H …Weitz Family Foundati…Nebraska Children & F…M & M Foundation
Nebraska Community FoundationNE23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Cooper Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · M & M 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 Medica Health Plans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Medica Health Plans. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to Medica Health Plans?

    Find your warmest path to Medica Health Plans 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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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