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Robert Herman Storz 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $50,185 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLAND | $30,000 |
| LAURITZEN GARDENS | $25,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST | $25,000 |
| VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA | $20,000 |
| OMAHA SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS - MIDLANDS | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $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 (FY23–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 76% of Robert Herman Storz 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, 100% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 24% — 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.
40 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 MUSEUM6× · 2019–2025 · $205k · revenue +174%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS7× · 2019–2025 · $96k · revenue +14%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- OPOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +165%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JEJAMES E WEST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +57%
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.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
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.
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.
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vita Nova Maternity Community. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 51 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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OUTLOOK ENRICHMENT ↗
- Who funds JAMES E WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KICKS FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Parker 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 Herman Storz 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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