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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

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$779kHealth$565kEnvironment$563kHousing & Shelter$430kAnimals$424kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $1,164,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,188,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,500 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $715k
$32,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY: $20k → 6%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $50k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $35k → 6%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $27k → 6%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $12k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $25k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $40k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $35k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $15k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $10k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $10k → 12%FOSTER LOVE INCORPORATION: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $8k → 12%GRIEF'S JOURNEY: $30k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $25k → 12%GRIEF'S JOURNEY: $20k → 12%GRIEF'S JOURNEY: $10k → 12%EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING: $50k → 12%CHILDRENS RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $33k → 12%EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING: $30k → 12%CRCC: $13k → 12%CHILDRENS RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 12%CRCC: $10k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $90k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%DREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $42k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $63k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $55k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $33k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $33k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $33k → 12%FINANCIAL HOPE COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $8k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 40 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CU
    Creighton University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $575k · revenue +45%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +31%
  • OC
    Omaha Children's Museum
    7× · 2019–2025 · $438k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • OC
    OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • OP
    OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • OP
    OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +78%
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
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
3
Omaha Sports Commission

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

—
5
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

—
7
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
8
Opera Omaha Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

—
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
12
Omaha Parks Foundation

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

68 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
50/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUSTOmaha Children's Museum: $438,000 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's MuseumTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $240,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSEUMOMAHA BY DESIGN: $200,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA BY DESIGNMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INCOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $123,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $102,500 · Arts & CultureCreighton University: $575,000 · EducationCreighton Universit…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRA…WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · EducationWESTSIDE COMMUNITY …OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $170,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRU…+3 more: $45,000 · EducationDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $266,500 · Human ServicesDREAMWEAVER FOU…WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $222,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER …CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING IN…HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $111,500 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND EQUIN…NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA ASSOCI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTED ROOTS…GRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $60,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $96,500 · Human Services+7 moreCOMPLETELY KIDS: $277,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETEL…NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…Smart Gen Society Inc: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC: $40,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentANGELS AMONG US: $175,000 · HealthNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $102,300 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · HealthMADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $430,000 · EnvironmentLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $60,000 · EnvironmentOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $399,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $420,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANIT…CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $225,000 · OtherCASA FOR DOUGLAS CO…PROJECT HARMONY: $103,000 · OtherPROJECT HARMONYFONTENELLE FOREST: $132,500 · OtherFONTENELLE FORESTOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $83,000 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOL…MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 · OtherOmaha Community Foundation: $100,000 · OtherOmaha Community Fou…NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherNEBRASKA CHILDREN &…CUES FUND: $100,000 · OtherCUES FUND+9 more: $132,500 · Other+9 more
Arts & Culture$2,328,500Education$1,475,000Human Services$1,169,500Youth Development$760,000Health$522,300Environment$490,000Animals$424,000Other$1,461,000

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 budgetOMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCreighton University: $575,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $438,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $430,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $420,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $399,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $277,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetDREAMWEAVER FOUNDATION: $266,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $240,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $225,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $222,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetOMAHA BY DESIGN: $200,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $175,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $170,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $132,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $123,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $111,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $103,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $102,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCUES FUND: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $83,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC: $80,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $60,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMADONNA REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSmart Gen Society Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSTUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Leland J & Dorothy H …The Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Holland FoundationWeitz Family Foundati…Amy L Scott Family Fo…Gilbert M and Martha …
The Lozier FoundationNE98.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Parker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Parker Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Parker Family Foundation 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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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