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Richard Brooke 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $480k
- $50k–250k49 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000,000 |
| ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC | $300,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| CAMP FOSTERYMCA OF THE OKOBOJIS | $182,500 |
| FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC (DBA FIND FOOD BANK) | $175,000 |
| AVENUE SCHOLERS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET | $150,000 |
| LIVING DESERT | $150,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LENGUE OF OMAHA | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $150,000 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $125,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE OMAHA | $125,000 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $120,000 |
| NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Richard Brooke Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
72 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- CFCamp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +50%
- NHNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +17%
- OCONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- ODOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST CO HERITAGE SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $500k
- CICOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -89%
- SASTRATEGIC AIR AND SPACE MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $108k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 93 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 Camp Foster Young Mens Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BALLET NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GALLERY 1516 OF REGIONAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds THE PALM VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NO MORE EMPTY POTS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Richard Brooke 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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