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Pegler Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| LINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE | $155,000 |
| LINCOLN CHILDRENS ZOO | $100,000 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $20,000 |
| RUDGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC | $10,000 |
| EMERALDS BOOSTER CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PGA REACH NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB | $3,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BLUE JAYS FOR BALTIMORE | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $617k · revenue +31%
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +25%
- LYLINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- TCTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $107k · revenue -46%
- GVGARLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TRTHE RANCH MINISTIRESone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -6%
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 improve the quality of life in our community & nebraska by providing funding for a wide range of charitable giving with emphasis on youth, underprivileged, and education; and providing a fiscally responsible program for protecting and…
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.
The foundation supports the city of lincoln and downtown lincoln, nebraska by providing opportunities for obtaining gifts, grants or other funds to be used for special projects benefitting downtown lincoln, nebraska.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
The mission of the nebraska ffa foundation is to enhance quality education/ffa programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students.
Organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes; the foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of christ lincoln church in lincoln, nebraska (a nebraska non-profit religious corporation).
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rudge Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 85 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 LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
- Who funds SILVER HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds RUDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RANCH MINISTIRES ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WHITECLAY MAKERSPACE ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Assurity Life Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Abel Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · D F Dillon 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 Pegler 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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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