· Private foundation
Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $229k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA | $548,323 |
| CHABAD HOUSE | $503,197 |
| WESTSIDE FOUNDATION | $274,967 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $166,799 |
| COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST | $62,344 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS | $25,000 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $25,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF OMAHA | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $20,000 |
| CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY | $15,000 |
| TEMPLE ISREAL | $10,035 |
| PHOENIX ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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; $10k 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
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM2× · 2019–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +174%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $990k · revenue +70%
- OCOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC8× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2020 · $76k
- WCWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -2%
- TITOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +519%
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
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.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
The omaha zoological society's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northstar Foundation and the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 77 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 THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Youth Care Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Giving 3 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 Phillip and Terri Schrager 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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