· Private foundation
Robert B Daugherty Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $595k
- $50k–250k69 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+29 grants · $31M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $4,810,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $3,250,000 |
| Community Information Trust | $3,000,000 |
| Mental Health Innovation Foundation | $3,000,000 |
| Opas Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $1,800,000 |
| Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation | $1,600,000 |
| Community Alliance Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| Project Harmony-Haven for Abuse Response Members Serving Our | $900,000 |
| Childrens Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $800,000 |
| Nebraska Youth Justice Initiative | $750,000 |
| City of Fremont | $750,000 |
| Gothenburg Early Childhood Learning Coalition | $750,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $650,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +23% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
153 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $56M · revenue +70%
- MCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +213%
- CUCreighton University5× · 2017–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- DTDONORS TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $1.6M
- KMKountze Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Churchone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association (dba Fremontone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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 mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.
Support for community colleges
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Greater Loup Valley Activities. 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 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
229 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. 229 of the 281 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVENTY-FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DONORS TRUST ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds BLUFFS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE MADONNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
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 · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Mammel Family 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 Robert B Daugherty 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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