· Public charity
Sowers Club of Nebraska Foundation
To improve the quality of life in our community & nebraska by providing funding for a wide range of charitable giving with emphasis on youth, underprivileged, and education; and providing a fiscally responsible program for protecting and growing the assets of the foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $102,275 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $47,275 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYAN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your 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 +19% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 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
- LHLINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +19% · 47% of their budget
- LCLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER2× · 2018–2022 · $30k · revenue +154%
- LFLIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FSFRESH START INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -20%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLNone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -7%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To strengthen our community by teaching the english language and various literacy skills to people of all cultures.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
The lincoln county foood bank is organized to provide food assistance to those individuals who are economically disadvantaged and without adequate food sources.
The mission of the Lincoln Hills Foundation is to promote and fund solutions and programs that will enhance the quality of life for the senior residents of the Lincoln community.
To provide training and support to individuals with developmental disabilities so they may achieve maximum potential for self-reliance and active participation in the community.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
The organization advocates, promotes, and supports court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children, striving to secure a permanent and safe home for each child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Lincoln and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds Bryan Medical Center ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILY NETWORK OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sowers Club of Nebraska 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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