· Private foundation
Terpstra 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCASA FOR YORK COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
- BVBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue +37%
- LCLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS5× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- YPYORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +36% · 35% of their budget
- MYMALCOM YOUTH SPORTSone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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.
The mission of the lincoln community playhouse is to create and promote quality theatrical experiences that meet the needs of the lincoln area. the playhouse achieves it's mission by providing opportunities for the participation by…
To present diverse, high-quality programs that provide entertaining, artistic, educational and social experiences that enrich our community.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
Promote live theater in bellvue nebraska
To provide live theatre for the public as entertainment and for educational purposes for young aspiring actors.
LightBox Theatre Company is a non-profit theater organization committed to bringing quality professional live drama to the youth in and around Turlock. Through school based performances, we seek to provide opportunities for all of our…
The mission of the lawrence arts center is to create meaningful arts experiences with and for the community through education, exhibitions, and performances.
The organization operates a children's museum in columbus, nebraska. our mission is to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all children that inspires them to explore, create, and learn through the power of play.
As one of america's oldest continuously-operating community theatres, the mission of the youngstown playhouse is to present high quality theater arts performances, provide education opportunities for adults and youth, expose all people to…
The organization supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so they can thrive in safe permanent homes.
To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater, find their voices, and enrich their communities. theater is utilized as a tool in the educational and social development of young people to provide formal…
Longmont theatre company's mission is to provide consistently high-quality entertainment with a strong educational component for and by the citizens of the greater boulder county area and to successfully manage a self-sufficient performing…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CASA FOR YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Talmage Rescue Squad ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEMORIES FOR KIDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dolezal Family Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Terpstra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terpstra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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