· Public charity
Nebraska Recycling Council
Education of and assistance with waste reduction, recycling, and pollution prevention opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMART SOILS | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $25,000 |
| CITY OF OMAHA | $23,100 |
| HEARTLAND DISPOSAL | $22,679 |
| KEEP CASS COUNTY BEAUTIFUL | $21,997 |
| MIDDLE NIOBRARA NRD | $20,000 |
| LOUP CENTRAL LANDFILL | $16,440 |
| CITY OF BENKLEMAN | $15,761 |
| CURTIS MCCABE DBA MILLIRON | $14,000 |
| CITY OF NELIGH | $13,559 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,339 |
| KEEPING CHADRON BEAUTIFUL | $11,180 |
| WESTERN RESOURCES GROUP | $3,302 |
| SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,712 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of your 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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- COCITY OF BENKLEMAN2× · 2024–2025 · $31k
- COCITY OF OMAHA - DEPARTMENT OF PARKS RECREATION AND PUBLIC PROPERTY2× · 2024–2025 · $29k
- KCKEEP CHADRON BEAUTIFUL2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- COCITY OF HARTINGTONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -13%
- COCITY OF TEKAMAHone grant, 2024 · $24k
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 raise the funds necessary to support the services provided by goodwill industries of greater nebraska, inc.
To improve the quality of life for all individuals by providing skills training and helping people find jobs.
Goodwill retail services, inc. ("goodwill retail") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit corporation…
Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.
Goodwill industries of n.c. pa, inc. provides social and vocational rehabilitation, training, and educational programs for people with disabilities and other disadvantaging conditions through the operation of retail stores, job centers,…
To provide opportunities for vocational training, job placement assistance, and the developement of independent living skills for people with disabilities or other barriers to employment.
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
Willing workers employed and community resources maximized.
To provide the community with a low cost place to shop for everyday needs, such as clothing, household goods & furniture in a loving christian environment to help people who are in difficult situations start over again, place for people to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of Greater Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western Resources Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP CASS COUNTY BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds KEEP CHADRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESOURCES GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Nebraska Recycling Council 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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