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Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

$116M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$173k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.4MYouth Development$268kCivil Rights$251kReligion$197kHealth$154kArts & Culture$115kHuman Services$50kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $351,540, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,042,228 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $115,690,688 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $247k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$556M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Abide Network$172,756
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc$74,184
ACLU Nebraska Foundation Inc$40,600
Ablaze Ministries Inc$30,000
ACE Mentor Program Greater Om$12,500
ActionAid USA$10,000
402 - Omahas Finest$6,000
Ablaze House of Prayer Inc$5,500
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 (FY21–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ABC House Inc: $5k → 13%A Mothers Love Inc: $45k → 12%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 10 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$2.4M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

70%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionSocial ScienceOther
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

  • 1B
    100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $268k · revenue +1%
  • AN
    ACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $251k · revenue +54%
  • AT
    A TIME TO HEAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $79k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALL HOLY SPIRIT GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF OMAHA NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • AM
    A Mothers Love Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • AS
    ACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF OVERLAND PARK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +11%
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
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
2
Aqua-Africa Inc

Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.

International
3
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
4
Agape Schools

Religious preschool and daycare services

Human Services
5
Ayada Leads

Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

Human Services
6
Advocate Aurora Health Inc

To promote and improve the quality and expand the scope and accessibility of affordable health care and health-care related services for the communities we serve.

Health
7
Associated Black Charities Inc

Associated black charities abc is a racial equity organization that works as an educator advocate supporter and convener to address and eliminate the barriers created by structural racism and to advance long-term solutions that create new…

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8
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
9
A House On Beekman Inc

A house on beekman's mission is to empower children and youth in the south bronx to flourish by providing programs that focus on academic, social, and emotional health.

Human Services
10
Aire Ventures Inc

At aire ventures, we scale technology and innovation solutions to systemic gaps in access, opportunity, and racial equity.

Community Improvement
11
Aco Incorporated

To provide compassionate abortion care in an empathetic, professional, and respectful environment, to empower people with the resources and direct care to determine the outcome of their pregnancies, and to mentor and train the next…

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12
Aclu Nebraska

For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African American Empowerment Network in; the most unlike its peers is 3 Sisters. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABIDE NETWORK INC: $1,068,866 · OtherABIDE NETWORK INCACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC: $251,317 · OtherACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INCABLAZE MINISTRIES INC D/B/A ABLAZE HOUSE OF MINISTRIES: $89,083 · OtherABLAZE MINISTRIES INC D/B/A ABLAZE HOUSE OF MINISTRIESABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherALL HOLY SPIRIT GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $58,000 · Other+2 more: $11,320 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN: $358,525 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT …100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC: $268,394 · Education100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC+2 more: $24,500 · EducationAFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION: $104,000 · Arts & Culture3 SISTERS: $25,097 · Arts & CultureA TIME TO HEAL INC: $79,368 · HealthA Mothers Love Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE INC: $5,090 · Human ServicesABLAZE HOUSE OF PRAYER INC: $49,820 · ReligionACTIONAID USA: $10,000 · Social Science
Other$1,553,586Education$651,419Arts & Culture$129,097Health$79,368Human Services$50,090Religion$49,820Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABIDE NETWORK INC: $1,068,866 over 5y, 11% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN: $358,525 over 2y, 6.5% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC: $268,394 over 5y, 20% of budgetACLU NEBRASKA FOUNDATION INC: $251,317 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION: $104,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetA TIME TO HEAL INC: $79,368 over 3y, 12% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetABLAZE HOUSE OF PRAYER INC: $49,820 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetACCELERATED SCHOOLS OF OVERLAND PARK INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetACTIONAID USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABC HOUSE INC: $5,090 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Omaha Community Found…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Lozier FoundationNE17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Omaha Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Omaha Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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