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Stephen F Dwyer Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $507k
- $250k+1 grant · $485k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN URBAN EDUCATION SERVICES | $484,798 |
| HOLY NAME | $181,963 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CREIGHTON PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| JESUIT MIDDLE SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| MADONNA SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER | $50,000 |
| RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| FOOTBALL FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DUCHESNE ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $17,000 |
| VITA NOVA | $10,000 |
| OREL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN COLORADO PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- CFCUES FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +117%
- CUCreighton University9× · 2017–2025 · $773k · revenue +48%
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $314k · revenue ×13
Funded once
- OCOMAHA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $18k
- CRCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +64%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Nonprofit corporation which provides leadership development and enhancement through educational programs and opportunities for community involvement.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smart Gen Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 40 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 CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS ATHLETES VALUES EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTBALL FOR THE WORLD FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds Smart Gen Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BIG GARDEN ↗
- Who funds JAVELAN INC ↗
- Who funds OREL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds A LATERE ACADEMY ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Slezak Family Charitable Foundation · Walter Scott Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · William & Barbara Fitzgerald Family Fdn · Therese and Tim Fitzgibbons · Hogan Family Foundation · Kim 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 Stephen F Dwyer Memorial 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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