· Private foundation
Normil Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Normil Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Omaha Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Normil Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $11,300 |
| FRIENDS OF OAKLAND FOUNDATION | $7,300 |
| SOUTHEAST COMM COLLEGE EDUC FOUND | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA OUTDOOR LUTHERAN MINISTRY | $4,000 |
| LINCOLN CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OAKLAND NE | $2,000 |
| ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY | $2,000 |
| SHERIDAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP FORCE INTL | $2,000 |
| OAKLAND CRAIG HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSH | $1,500 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,500 |
| NEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION BLUE JACK | $1,500 |
| LYONS DECATUR NORTHEAST SCHOLARSHIP | $1,500 |
| FLOYD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- LCLYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +238%
- BCBURT COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $9k · revenue +54%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN CITY LIBRARIES3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- UFUNL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $6k
- FEFIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $3k
- UFUNL FEEDLOT INNOVATION CTRone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
The unf charitable gift fund was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.
Nonprofit corporation which provides leadership development and enhancement through educational programs and opportunities for community involvement.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The mission of the nebraska state fair 1868 foundation is to raise funds and resources for the overall improvement of the nebraska state fair.
The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…
To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
To Cultivate Lincoln Philanthropy and Stewardship for Today and Tomorrow
The foundry is a collaborative resource in downtown lincoln to support, educate, and develop the nebraska purpose driven community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Ffa Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Floyd County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 66 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 Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURT COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP FORCE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN CITY LIBRARIES ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Donlan Foundation · Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Normil 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.