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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 it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.5MReligion$618kYouth Development$278kHousing & Shelter$124kHuman Services$95kArts & Culture$30kHealth$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $641k
  • $250k+2 grants · $755k
$25,000
Median grant
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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
Rebuilding Together, Platte Valley East$35,000
Mosaic$35,000
Omaha Street School$30,000
Micah House Family Shelter$25,000
Lutheran High School Northeast$25,000
Fremont Habitat for Humanity$25,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

03Its field
03the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2022 to 2024, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

04Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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