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Sunny Durham Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| KANEKO | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTHSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $150,000 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SENIOR CENTER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| PAWS | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| OMAHA SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $50,000 |
| JOSLYN CASTLE & GARDENS | $50,000 |
| LEARNING FOR ALL | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
36 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- NHNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $522k · revenue +52%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +392%- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS5× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS HOMEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VNVITA NOVAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MOMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ARTone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -53%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
Humanities nebraska helps nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.
Opensky policy institute's mission is to use research, strategic communications and coalition-building to advance evidence-based policies that improve economic opportunity for all nebraskans.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. 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 37 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NO MORE EMPTY POTS ↗
- Who funds KICKS FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds LEARNING FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA 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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Weitz Family 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 Sunny Durham Family 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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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