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Midlands Community Foundation
To be a catalyst for lasting impact in sarpy and cass counties and to give opportunities to organizations and individuals to pursue their charitable goals.
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.
The 38 grants below total $1,598,778 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,930,337 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $331,559 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
- $250k+1 grant · $767k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORGOOD COMMUNITY PANTRY | $767,000 |
| CITY OF BELLEVUE | $125,637 |
| PAPILLION LAVISTA SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $91,918 |
| CITY OF SPRINGFIELD | $48,862 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $40,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LOFTE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $36,619 |
| PAPILLION LAVISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SARPY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,500 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $24,000 |
| GRETNA NEIGHBORS | $23,707 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,668 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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, $451k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Midlands Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- NCNeighborGood Community Pantry9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue ×12
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $265k · revenue +57%
- SCSARPY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2020–2023 · $245k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MFMUSCO FINANCE LLCone grant, 2017 · $183k
- PRPAPIO-MISSOURI RIVER NATURAL RESOURCES DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $105k
- COCITY OF BELLEVUEone grant, 2018 · $94k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
End hunger together.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whyarts Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 255 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NeighborGood Community Pantry ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARPY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE LOFTE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARPY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PAPILLION LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Louisville Public School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAPILLION-LA VISTA TRAP TEAM ↗
- Who funds GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR AND REMEMBER INC ↗
- Who funds Sarpy County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Nebraska Community Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Midlands Community 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.
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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