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The Fliesbach Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRRUS HOUSE | $33,750 |
| PANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| WEST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $28,750 |
| LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST TH | $25,000 |
| PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS | $25,000 |
| SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY | $22,500 |
| CAPSTONE | $22,500 |
| LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THEATRE WEST | $17,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $15,000 |
| NPR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Fliesbach Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- PHPANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +43%
- WNWEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +27% · 32% of their budget
- LOLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TSTHE SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +390%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -SCOTTSBLUFFone grant, 2017 · $28k
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Foster, maintain and improve the morale of nps employees and to promote close ties with current nps members and nps alumni.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 88 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 PANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIRRUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOVES PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Oregon Trail Community Foundation · Quivey-Bay State Foundation · G a Fliesbach Foundation · Cw Yount Foundation Inc · Reardon - Mohr Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico · The Stocker Foundation · Lockwood Foundation · Bonnie Korlick Private Charitable Foundation · United Way of Western Nebraska · Enchanted Life Foundation · Robert B Daugherty 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 Fliesbach 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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