· Public charity
Parker Family Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,164,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,188,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $715k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| ANGELS AMONG US | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $62,500 |
| COMPLETELY KIDS | $57,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $55,000 |
| HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS | $45,000 |
| THE DURHAM MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| OMAHA THEATER COMPANY | $32,500 |
| FONTENELLE FOREST | $32,500 |
| CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CUCreighton University4× · 2020–2025 · $575k · revenue +45%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +31%
- OCOmaha Children's Museum7× · 2019–2025 · $438k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- OCOMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- OPOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +40%
- OPOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +78%
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 mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Whyarts 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 32 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
68 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.
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 OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Omaha Botanical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds GRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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 Parker Family 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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