· Charitable trust
The Faith Charitable Trust
Supporting organization for the Omaha Community Foundation which has more than 2000 charitable funds supported by the greater Omaha, SW Iowa and SE Nebraska areas.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of The Faith Charitable Trust’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Dechomai Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $670k
- $250k+3 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dechomai Foundation Inc | $8,060,066 |
| Schwab Charitable Fund | $5,981,249 |
| Youth for Christ USA Inc | $320,000 |
| Heartland Family Service | $200,000 |
| Omaha Community Foundation | $200,000 |
| HTI Labs | $125,000 |
| Omaha by Design | $95,000 |
| Hope Center Inc | $50,000 |
| Omaha Street School | $20,500 |
| Nebraska Domestic Violence & | $20,000 |
| Midlands Community Foundation | $15,000 |
| Omaha Theater CompanyRose Th | $15,000 |
| Lutheran Family Services - NE | $10,000 |
| Womens Center for Advancement | $10,000 |
| Mary Our Queen Church | $8,350 |
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 (FY20–21, $577k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k 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
- OYOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST2× · 2020–2021 · $620k · revenue +10%
- HFHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE2× · 2020–2021 · $405k · revenue +22%
- NDNEBRASKA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT COALITION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $140k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- BCBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $152k · revenue -35%
- OCONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +42%
- FSFILM STREAMS INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -14%
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 mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Organized for the purpose of assisting individuals and groups in the resolution and management of conflicts, promoting public awareness and understanding of alternative dispute resolutions, providing educational materials, workshops and…
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Christian Mission Stations. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 DECHOMAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY ARTS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Christian Mission Stations ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HOUSE ↗
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 · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 The Faith Charitable 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.
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