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Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati at a glance

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Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$516k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MEducation$783kArts & Culture$486kHealth$263kRecreation & Sports$205kHuman Services$187kYouth Development$159kFood & Nutrition$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $246k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEARTLAND UNITED WAY$90,500
GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN$55,500
STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,000
Grand Island Young Womens Christian Asso$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
CHOICE FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC$10,000
HOPE HARBOR INC$10,000
MAKE A WISH OF NEBRASKA$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS-SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Grand Island Young Womens Christian Asso: $50k → 12%HOPE HARBOR INC: $10k → 12%HOPE HARBOR INC: $10k → 12%HOPE HARBOR INC: $10k → 12%HOPE HARBOR INC: $10k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%Christmas Cheer Association: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
20

Total granted

$3.2M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +262%
  • GF
    GRACE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +114%
  • PH
    PROJECT HUNGER
    5× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BT
    BOYS TOWN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND SKEET & SPORTING CLAY CLUB INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -99%
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $41k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Nebraska Growth Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
2
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
3
Grand Rapids Public Library Fndn

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…

Education
4
Grow Grand Island Inc

The organization's mission is to develop a collaborative and comprehensive approach to business and community growth and progress in grand island.

Community Improvement
5
Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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6
Grand Island Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.

—
7
Heartland Lakes Development Commiss

Inspire and retain economic growth

Community Improvement
8
Grand Heritage Foundation Inc

Support for the grand community center

Recreation & Sports
9
Grant County Community Foundation Incorporated

To connect people who care with causes that matter

Philanthropy
10
Valley County Health System Foundat

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.

Health
11
Iowa Great Lakes Chamber of Commerce

To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.

—
12
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Island Public Schools Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $319,550 · OtherGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATIOSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $295,300 · OtherSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATIONGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $190,174 · OtherGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLSGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $156,730 · OtherGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY: $101,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $77,000 · Other+43 more: $952,846 · Other+43 moreHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $663,181 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INCGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $211,606 · PhilanthropyGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNI…GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $112,500 · PhilanthropyGRACE FOUNDATION INCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $269,581 · EducationCENTRAL CO…LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $77,000 · EducationLITERACY C…GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $28,820 · EducationGRAND ISLA…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationPROJECT HUNGER: $107,000 · Community ImprovementWOOD RIVER VISION 2020: $70,000 · Community ImprovementCAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Community ImprovementGRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HARBOR INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS CHEER: $33,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION: $99,000 · Recreation & SportsHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $41,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,093,100Philanthropy$987,287Education$385,401Community Improvement$204,500Human Services$123,000Recreation & Sports$99,000Arts & Culture$96,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $663,181 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $295,300 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $269,581 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $211,606 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $156,730 over 5y, 27% of budgetGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $112,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPROJECT HUNGER: $107,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $77,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $77,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER VISION 2020: $70,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA: $67,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $62,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $61,240 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $51,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGRAND ISLAND SKEET & SPORTING CLAY CLUB INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $41,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER: $33,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $28,820 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetWILLOW RISING INC: $23,827 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCHOICE FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC: $16,944 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMERRICK FOUNDATION INC: $11,800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC: $4,515 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHEARTLAND CASA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of 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.

  • 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 THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Edgar & Frances Reyno…Greater Grand Island …Taylor Vern & Esther …The Sherwood Foundati…Fred & Amanda Glade F…Claussen E & M Charit…Kaufmann-Cummings Fou…Heartland United Way …Nebraska Community Fo…First Interstate Banc…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Bnsf Railway Foundati…
Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation IncNE43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati 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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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