· Private foundation
Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| NORTHWEST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| GRAND ISLAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $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 (FY18–22, $4k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 INC4× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +195%
- HCHALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +74%
- NENORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CLCHRYSALIS LUTHERAN HOMES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +22%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Metrone grant, 2019 · $6k
- CCCROSSROADS CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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…
Assist city library
To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.
The organization is committed to providing immediate relief to midtown manhattan's homeless population. through our mainchance drop-in center, we offer basic necessities (food, clothing, showers, and chairs for respite) and a range of…
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.
The organization's mission is to develop a collaborative and comprehensive approach to business and community growth and progress in grand island.
Support for the grand community center
Establish, maintain and manage a little league baseball program for the youth of grand island ne
Provide tuition assistance
To provide low income housing to eligible persons in grand forks, nd.
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central 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 Grand Island Music Series. 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 39 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS LUTHERAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Island Music Series ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHOODS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM OF THE PRAIRIE PIONEER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY 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: Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
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 Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust 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.