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Team Lyons 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Animals$4kEnvironment$3kReligion$2kEducation$2kHealth$1kHousing & Shelter$900Arts & Culture$400Human Services$370
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$450
Median grant
9
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nebraska Wildlife Rehab$2,000
All Saints Episcopal Church$1,000
National Wildlife Federation$600
Missouri Military Academy$500
Radio Talking Book Service$500
Nature Conservancy$500
Environmental Defense Fund$500
World Wildlife Fund$450
National Park Foundation$400
Habitat For Humanity of Omaha$250
Habitat for Humanity International$250
Planned Parenthood North Central$250
National Audubon Society$200
American Gold Star Mothers$120
American Cancer Society$100
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 (FY24–24, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Center for Youth and Family Solutions: $250 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$8k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NW
    NEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • MM
    MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +15%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • AS
    All Saints Episcopal Church
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +10%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +3%
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
3
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
4
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
5
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…

Environment
9
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kios Broadcasting Serv of the Omaha Public Schools. 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

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

All Saints Episcopal Church: $1,000 · OtherAll Saints Episcopal ChurchTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAll Saints Episcopal Church: $1,000 · OtherAll Saints Episcopal ChurchNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $800 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONHabitat for Humanity International: $450 · OtherHabitat for Humanity InternationalNational Audubon Society: $400 · OtherNational Audubon SocietyPlanned Parenthood North Central: $250 · OtherFriends of KIOS Broadcasting Serv of the Omaha Public Schools: $200 · OtherNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $200 · Other+1 more: $120 · OtherNEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC: $2,500 · AnimalsNEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INCNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,200 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONMISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY: $1,500 · EducationMISSOURI MIL…DAVINCI ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: $100 · EducationDAVINCI ACAD…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $450 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…AUDUBON SOCIETY OF OMAHA: $100 · EnvironmentAUDUBON SOCI…RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $450 · Housing & ShelterTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $250 · Human Services
Other$5,420Animals$3,700Education$1,600Environment$1,550Health$1,100Housing & Shelter$450Human Services$250

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 budgetNEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of KIOS Broadcasting Serv of the Omaha Public Schools: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVINCI ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF OMAHA: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Team Lyons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Team Lyons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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.

    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 23 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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