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Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.4MEducation$955kReligion$810kArts & Culture$613kPublic Safety & Disaster$573kHousing & Shelter$286kHealth$276kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $652k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH$300,000
NE COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC$214,427
ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$175,573
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$142,899
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$119,000
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$40,000
NEBR CITY CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAM$40,000
NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG$40,000
TALMAGE RESCUE SQUAD$27,718
KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM$25,000
CIVIL WAR VETERANS MUSEUM GAR HALL$22,000
NEBRASKA CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,000
GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NE CAMP CATRO$18,470
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY CREATIVE DIST$13,382
MAKE-A-WISH OF NEBRASKA CITY$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $212k → 10%NE COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $214k → 14%DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $81k → 10%NE COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $95k → 14%TALMAGE RESCUE SQUAD: $28k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BUILDI: $662k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $500k → 10%NEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $450k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $400k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $350k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $300k → 10%ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $300k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $225k → 10%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $176k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $154k → 10%ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CEMETERY: $150k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $143k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $140k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BUILDI: $125k → 10%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $119k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $116k → 10%NEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND: $101k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $100k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $100k → 10%FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF THE SORROWFUL: $100k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $100k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $65k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY TOURISM & COMMERCE: $65k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $64k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $64k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY BASEBALL ASSOC: $60k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY BASEBALL ASSOC: $56k → 10%REGION V SERCIES NEBRASKA CITY: $50k → 10%ST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CEMETERY: $50k → 10%NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $40k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $40k → 10%NEBR CITY CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAM: $40k → 10%FRIENDS OF ARBOR LODGE FOUNDATION: $36k → 10%NEBR CITY FASTPITCH SOFTBALL: $35k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $29k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $29k → 10%FRIENDS OF RIVERVIEW NATURE PARK: $28k → 10%MO RIVER BASIN LEWIS & CLARK CENTER: $25k → 10%KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM: $25k → 10%KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUS: $25k → 10%KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUS: $25k → 10%CHRIST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN: $23k → 10%CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $23k → 10%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 37 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
22

Total granted

$5.3M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+154%

Still filing today

19%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M
  • NC
    NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M
  • NC
    NEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BUILDI
    2× · 2018–2020 · $787k

Funded once

  • LC
    LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $501k
  • NC
    NEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • NC
    NEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND
    one grant, 2018 · $101k
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
Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Arts & Culture
2
Dawson County Historical Society

Operation of Historical Museum for the collection, preparation and display of artifacts from Dawson County Nebraska and disseminate and educate the public about Dawson County and it's historical treasures.

Arts & Culture
3
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
4
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
5
Karnes County Historical Society
—
6
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
—
7
National Museum of Military Vehicles
Arts & Culture
8
Automotive and Fire Engine Museum
Philanthropy
9
Colby Rural Arts Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Plains Historical Society

Preserve and protect cultural, historical, and scientific items to foster and to promote learning of kimball county, nebraska culture and history.

Arts & Culture
11
Nebraska City Museum Association

Organizations mission is to financially support and manage the museums located in nebraska city, nebraska for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture
12
Seguin-Guadalupe County Heritage Museum Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department. 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

13 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. 13 of the 70 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $1,304,981 · OtherCITY OF NEBRASKA CITYNEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDG: $1,231,000 · OtherNEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BLDGNEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BUILDI: $786,506 · OtherNEBR CITY VETERAN'S MEMORIAL BUILDILOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $500,850 · OtherLOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLNEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $450,000 · OtherNEBR CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONNE COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $309,427 · OtherST BENEDICT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $300,000 · Other+55 more: $2,023,870 · Other+55 moreDUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $305,260 · Public Safety & DisasterKREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM: $62,000 · Arts & CulturePATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA COUNTRY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · EducationOTOE COUNTY WILDLIFE CLUB: $8,500 · EnvironmentRIVER COUNTRY NATURE CENTER INC: $2,255 · EnvironmentLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalVincent & Marie Kreifels Family Foundation: $5,025 · Philanthropy
Other$6,906,634Public Safety & Disaster$305,260Arts & Culture$77,000Education$11,000Environment$10,755Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$5,025

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $305,260 over 2y, 88% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $216,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetKREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM: $62,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetTalmage Rescue Squad: $27,718 over 1y, 40% of budgetMERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $27,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23,325 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetPATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTOE COUNTY WILDLIFE CLUB: $8,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetVincent & Marie Kreifels Family Foundation: $5,025 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVER COUNTRY NATURE CENTER INC: $2,255 over 1y, 66% 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 DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CITY TOURISM & COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds KREGEL WINDMILL FACTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Talmage Rescue Squad ↗
  • Who funds MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS 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.

Karl H and Wealtha H …Kropp Charitable Foun…The Steinhart Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family FoundationNE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation · Kropp Charitable Foundation Inc · The Steinhart 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 Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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 Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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