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Rupert Dunklau Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$505k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of RUPERT DUNKLAU FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $641k
  • $250k+2 grants · $755k
$25,000
Median grant
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Concordia University at Nebraska$505,000
Dakota Boy's & Girl's Ranch$250,000
Midland University$163,006
Trinity Lutheran Church$150,000
Pastoral Leadership Institute$103,000
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries$100,000
Lutheran Hour Ministries$75,000
Lincoln Lutheran School$50,000
Release Ministries, Inc.$40,000
Mosaic$35,000
Rebuilding Together, Platte Valley East$35,000
Omaha Street School$30,000
Micah House Family Shelter$25,000
Fremont Habitat for Humanity$25,000
Lutheran High School Northeast$25,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$466k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • CU
    Concordia University at Nebraska
    2× · 2022–2024 · $520k
  • LH
    Lutheran High School Northeast
    2× · 2022–2024 · $275k
  • PL
    Pastoral Leadership Institute
    2× · 2022–2024 · $153k

Funded once

  • CL
    Concordia Lutheran Schools of Omaha
    one grant, 2022 · $210k
  • FO
    Friends of Keene Memorial Library
    one grant, 2022 · $103k
  • HL
    Heartland Lutheran High School
    one grant, 2022 · $54k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.

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 20222024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Concordia University at Nebraska — $520,000 · OtherConcordia University at NebraskaLutheran High School Northeast — $275,000 · OtherLutheran High School NortheastDakota Boy's & Girl's Ranch — $250,000 · OtherDakota Boy's & Girl's RanchConcordia Lutheran Schools of Omaha — $210,000 · OtherConcordia Lutheran Schools of OmahaMidland University — $163,006 · OtherMidland UniversityPastoral Leadership Institute — $153,000 · OtherPastoral Leadership InstituteTrinity Lutheran Church — $150,000 · OtherTrinity Lutheran ChurchLutheran Hour Ministries — $135,000 · OtherFriends of Keene Memorial Library — $102,500 · OtherNebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries — $100,000 · Other+26 more — $678,475 · Other+26 more
Other$2,736,981

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget
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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rupert Dunklau Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rupert Dunklau Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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