· Private foundation
Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE WORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SHELTERING TREE | $10,000 |
| MICAH HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SIENNAFRANCIS HOUSE HOMELESS SHELTER | $10,000 |
| KOUNTZE MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SHARE A FARE INC | $10,000 |
| CORNBELT DIABETES CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN CENTER | $10,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY NEBRASKA CASA | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS | $10,000 |
| COMPLETELY KIDS | $10,000 |
| CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS6× · 2017–2022 · $56k · revenue +64%
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +82%
- HHHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION5× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue +470%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +7%
- AAANGELS AMONG USgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +153%
- ISIOWA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLINDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
To provide emergency shelter
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
Our mission is to provide ownership opportunities through public and private partnerships, financing, and technical assistance. by working collaboratively, we aim to expand access to capital in underserved communities, empowering…
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.
To provide education and support services to women and children in nebraska and western iowa.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Restoring Dignity 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 58 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 COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds Youth Care Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE A FARE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds MICAH HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING GIFT FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds OLLIE WEBB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Project Kindle ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds DIBS for Kids ↗
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 Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Adah K Millard Charitable Trust · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Suzanne & Walter Scott 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 Oliver & Ferrol Barklage 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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