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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.

$883k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.4MScience & Tech$75kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$55kHealth$48kFood & Nutrition$41kPhilanthropy$40kEnvironment$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $83k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEB FD$800,000
KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL$6,667
DENVER URBAN GARDNERS$6,667
Individual grant recipient$6,667
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CENTRAL IOWA$6,667
KC STEM ALLIANCE$6,667
GIRLS INC$6,667
ARKANSAS FOOD BANK$6,667
Madonna Foundation$5,000
COLLETTES CHILDREN HOME$2,500
PHOENIX RSUE MISSION$2,500
DIBS FOR KIDS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
SPHE COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%Great Plains Adaptive Riding Academ: $2k → 16%LIVE WELL GO FISH: $2k → 13%LENA POPE: $3k → 11%Cleats for Kids: $2k → 16%PACKS OF HOPE: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
KS
AR
NC
OK
MS
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 26 repeat orgs$492k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
53

Total granted

$2.3M
$468k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

58%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +13%
  • AT
    ARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +135%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • UO
    Univ Of Ne Fd
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MS
    MISSOUR STATE UNIV FD
    one grant, 2020 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Springboard Collaborative

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…

Human Services
2
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
Whiz Kids of Oklahoma Inc

Whiz Kids is working to close the opportunity gap for students through one-on-one literacy tutoring and faith-based mentoring.

Education
5
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
7
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
8
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
9
Ar Kids Read

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…

Youth Development
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Invest in Kids

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentor Nebraska; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
21/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEB FD: $1,450,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEB FDUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FD: $421,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FDUniv Of Ne Fd: $250,000 · OtherUniv Of Ne Fd+56 more: $391,299 · Other+56 moreKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $41,500 · EducationARKANSAS STEM COALITION: $20,001 · EducationARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $20,001 · EducationMINDSPARK LEARNING: $15,000 · EducationDIBS for Kids: $7,500 · Education+9 more: $18,367 · EducationLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $20,834 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD FORT: $2,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC: $13,334 · EnvironmentDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $13,334 · EnvironmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $20,001 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterARKANSAS FOODBANK: $13,334 · Food & NutritionBIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC: $3,400 · Food & NutritionFEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,512,299Education$122,369Philanthropy$60,000Youth Development$30,834Environment$26,668Housing & Shelter$25,001Food & Nutrition$24,234

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $20,834 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS STEM COALITION: $20,001 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetARIZONA TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $20,001 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $20,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINDSPARK LEARNING: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC: $13,334 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDENVER URBAN GARDENS: $13,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $13,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIBS for Kids: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOklahoma Engineering Foundation Inc: $6,667 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG MUDDY URBAN FARM INC: $3,400 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUPWARD TRANSITIONS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOR SINGLE MOMS DALLAS: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMATTHEW'S CROSSING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacks of Hope: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEAM ENGINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLENA POPE HOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS BUILDING NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEATS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWHIZ KIDS TUTORING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT PLAINS ADAPTIVE RIDING ACADEMY: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTLAND COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTOR NEBRASKA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FORT: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,817 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Sherwood Foundati…Union Pacific Foundat…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Lozier FoundationLincoln Community Fou…Lee and Debbie Stuart…Weitz Family Foundati…Nebraska Community Fo…James Stuart III Fami…Rogers FoundationBurlington Capital Fo…Assurity Life Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE22.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Olsson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olsson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Olsson Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Olsson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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