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The Bokenkamp Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONA | $10,000 |
| KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE | $5,075 |
| YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| KCRW | $2,500 |
| CRANE RIVER THEATRE | $2,500 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,500 |
| SAFE CENTER | $1,500 |
| BUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- KCKEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +55%
- YHYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +35%
- KPKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TWTHE WORLD THEATREone grant, 2020 · $22k
- KAKEARNEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -57%
- CRCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +81%
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.
The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.
We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.
This organization provides services to kearney area individuals in need.
Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.
To provide a variety of events including the county fair and other educational, agricultural, and entertainment events.
The Kearney Enrichment Council operates programs focusing on youth enrichment, senior adults, downtown revitalization, and emergency support. In KECs Spark Program, over 40 youth, participated in culinary art, technology and engineering…
To provide food and other needs for people living in kearney mo
Uptown operates its performing arts center as a home for live performances, film, education, and the life of our community.
The kearney area children's museum inspires play, exploration, & discovery through interactive experiences.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
Nurture local agriculture, craftsmen & artists
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kearney Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo County Historical 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.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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 KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELPCARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER ↗
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: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Tye Family Foundation · Arram Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Bokenkamp 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.
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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