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Mutual of Omaha Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creighton University | $250,000 |
| Latino Center of the Midlands | $250,000 |
| Lauritzen Gardens Omaha's Botanical Center | $250,000 |
| Omaha Performing Arts | $250,000 |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $250,000 |
| The American Red Cross | $150,000 |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $150,000 |
| Employee Financial Assistance Fund | $127,476 |
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | $121,241 |
| One Tree Planted | $100,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $100,000 |
| The Collective for Hope (formerly Grief's Journey) | $100,000 |
| Project Houseworks | $100,000 |
| The Salvation Army - Omaha | $100,000 |
| Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc | $75,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
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.
129 repeat relationships — 111 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
- CUCreighton University4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
- CSCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $660k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MHMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -59%
- CUCreighton Universityone grant, 2020 · $276k
- KCKids Can Community Centerone grant, 2020 · $265k
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
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.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
End hunger together.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
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.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Offutt Advisory Council. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
130 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. 130 of the 268 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD COC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds CHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS 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 · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider 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 Mutual of Omaha 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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