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Pace Woods Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATER | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $19,875 |
| FRIENDS OF LIED - BIG RED LIED | $15,000 |
| BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VISIONARY YOUTH | $12,500 |
| CIVIC NEBRASKA | $12,500 |
| YMCA OF LINCOLN | $12,000 |
| YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN | $10,500 |
| MADELINE ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| SHELDON ART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES INC | $10,000 |
| LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $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 (FY20–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +11% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%
- NWNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +11%
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NRNEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LALINCOLN ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -39%
- MIMADELINE ISLAND MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To strengthen the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the communities we serve by making high-quality arts and education programs available, accessible, and affordable for everyone.
To provide traditional educational programs in diverse fields of study, delivered by experienced educators, and leading to outstanding employment opportunities for American and international students
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
Lincoln university is a public, historically black university (hbcu) that provides a liberal arts based, undergraduate education on its main residential campus in chester county, pennsylvania; and professional programs on its urban campus…
Lccc's mission is to enrich it's community through art and cultural events in the historic delake school building and to support community economic development by promoting a successful center for the visual and performing arts.
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is La Pointe Center 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 34 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MIDWEST BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LA POINTE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS 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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Dolezal Family Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Hugo a and Thelma Aspegren Charitable Trust · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sunderland 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 Pace Woods 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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