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Pegler Family Foundation at a glance

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Pegler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$967k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$777kEducation$718kRecreation & Sports$604kYouth Development$384kFood & Nutrition$320kCrime & Legal$200kHealth$195kPhilanthropy$174kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM INC: $500 → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $250 → 10%THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $3k → 13%GIFT OF SIGHT: $5k → 12%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $10k → 13%YMCA OF LINCOLN: $10k → 13%CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $107k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $53k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $43k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $40k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $20k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $20k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $16k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $16k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WY
IA
PA
NE
MD
AZ
KS
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
40

Total granted

$3.2M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $617k · revenue +31%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +25%
  • LY
    LINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $107k · revenue -46%
  • GV
    GARLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TR
    THE RANCH MINISTIRES
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -6%
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
Lincoln Health Foundation
Health
2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
4
Sowers Club of Nebraska Foundation

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…

Youth Development
5
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
6
Food Bank of Lincoln Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).

Food & Nutrition
7
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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8
Downtown Lincoln Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
9
Lincoln Animal Ambassadors

To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.

Animals
10
Nebraska Ffa Foundation

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.

Youth Development
11
The Christ Lutheran Foundation

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).

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12
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
28/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $290,215 · OtherLINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INCDUCKS UNLIMITED: $150,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDWESTSIDE FOUNDATION: $104,000 · OtherWESTSIDE FOUNDATIONSPRING CREEK PRAIRIE AUDUBON CENTER: $70,000 · OtherSPRING CREEK PRAIRIE AUDUBON CENTERLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherGARLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE: $50,000 · OtherTHOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION: $138,391 · OtherTHOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $53,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $50,000 · Other+46 more: $338,656 · Other+46 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $617,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRAS…SILVER HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB: $38,000 · EducationSILVER HAWKS BOOSTER…+4 more: $7,800 · EducationLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $551,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN CHILDREN'…+2 more: $5,500 · AnimalsLIGHTHOUSE: $207,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSETHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $107,000 · Human ServicesTHE CEDARS …YMCA OF LINCOLN: $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF LIN…FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $15,000 · Human Services+4 more: $9,750 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $320,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK …LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $200,000 · Crime & LegalCENTERPOINTE INC: $100,000 · HealthBryan Foundation: $25,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $20,000 · HealthANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $14,000 · Health
Other$1,304,262Education$662,800Animals$556,500Human Services$358,750Food & Nutrition$320,000Crime & Legal$200,000Health$184,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $617,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $551,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $320,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN YOUTH FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $290,215 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $207,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $200,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION: $138,391 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $107,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $53,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSILVER HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB: $38,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRUDGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBryan Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF LINCOLN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWHITECLAY MAKERSPACE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRE RIDGE ELEMENTARY PTO: $4,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS TENNIS AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON HOLE ONE FLY FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget50 MILE MARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ACTORS ACADEMY OF LINCOLN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA SOCCER CHARITIES: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPAUL ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RUDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RANCH MINISTIRES ↗
  • Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA TRAILS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WHITECLAY MAKERSPACE ↗
  • Who funds THE WATSON YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Assurity Life Foundat…Rogers FoundationAbel FoundationLee and Debbie Stuart…The Sherwood Foundati…Cooper FoundationKinder Porter Scott F…Spreetail FoundationOlsson Family Foundat…Bettenhausen Family F…D F Dillon Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE50.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Pegler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pegler 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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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