· Private foundation
Olsson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $83k
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEB FD | $800,000 |
| KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL | $6,667 |
| ARKANSAS FOOD BANK | $6,667 |
| DENVER URBAN GARDNERS | $6,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,667 |
| KC STEM ALLIANCE | $6,667 |
| GIRLS INC | $6,667 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CENTRAL IOWA | $6,667 |
| Madonna Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COLLETTES CHILDREN HOME | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PHOENIX RSUE MISSION | $2,500 |
| DIBS FOR KIDS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +13%
- ATARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +135%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- UOUniv Of Ne Fdone grant, 2021 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MSMISSOUR STATE UNIV FDone grant, 2020 · $22k
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.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
End hunger together.
Whiz Kids is working to close the opportunity gap for students through one-on-one literacy tutoring and faith-based mentoring.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The organization is a community volunteer-based program designed to provide struggling readers and their families with access to trained tutors who donate time on a regular basis. the focus of these volunteer tutors is children who need to…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Invest in kids partners with local communities to ensure the success of evidence-based programs that improve the health and well-being of colorado's youngest children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentor Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Great Plains Adaptive Riding Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 25. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 90 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STEM COALITION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDSPARK LEARNING ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds DIBS for Kids ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Engineering Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD TRANSITIONS 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 Sherwood Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation · Assurity Life 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 Olsson Foundation Inc 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.
- Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Inc — 27% of income from government
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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