· Private foundation
Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $246k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARTLAND UNITED WAY | $90,500 |
| GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN | $55,500 |
| Grand Island Young Womens Christian Asso | $50,000 |
| STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| PROJECT HUNGER INC | $37,000 |
| GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $34,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| GRACE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEBRASKA STATE FAIR PARK FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| UNITED VETERANS CLUB | $16,000 |
| MAKE A WISH OF NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CHOICE FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS-SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA | $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 (FY17–25, $123k) 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +262%
- GFGRACE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +114%
- PHPROJECT HUNGER5× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BTBOYS TOWN CENTRAL NEBRASKAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GIGRAND ISLAND SKEET & SPORTING CLAY CLUB INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -99%
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $41k · revenue 0%
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.
To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
The mission of the grand rapids public library foundation is to provide fund raising and advocacy support for the grand rapids public library. the foundation assists the board of library commissioners in providing quality services to the…
The organization's mission is to develop a collaborative and comprehensive approach to business and community growth and progress in grand island.
To promote corn and corn products
To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.
Inspire and retain economic growth
Support for the grand community center
To connect people who care with causes that matter
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Island Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Vision 2020. 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 38 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 5% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 65 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 HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HUNGER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER VISION 2020 ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND SKEET & SPORTING CLAY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLOW RISING INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · The Sherwood Foundation · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Heartland United Way Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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 Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati 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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