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The Fliesbach Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$451k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$802kArts & Culture$662kAnimals$494kHealth$300kEnvironment$288kReligion$181kHousing & Shelter$158kHuman Services$156kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $390k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRRUS HOUSE$33,750
WEST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
PANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$28,750
FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST TH$25,000
PLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS$25,000
LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM$25,000
CAPSTONE$22,500
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY$22,500
LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$20,000
THEATRE WEST$17,500
NPR FOUNDATION$15,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$15,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
PBS FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $15k → 10%LIVING ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $15k → 10%LIVING ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $10k → 10%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $18k → 15%EL JARDIN DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 23%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $8k → 13%CAPWN: $15k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $10k → 15%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $23k → 23%BUCKHEAD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $10k → 15%MESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $15k → 23%MESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE: $10k → 23%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $5k → 15%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $8k → 23%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $4k → 23%CAPWN: $4k → 15%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $3k → 23%CASA DE PEREGRINOS: $3k → 23%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $3k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $3k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $2k → 15%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

MT
WI
MI
NY
IA
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Fliesbach Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 61%.

The Fliesbach Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 42 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$2.8M
$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • PH
    PANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +43%
  • WN
    WEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +27% · 32% of their budget
  • LO
    LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +390%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -SCOTTSBLUFF
    one grant, 2017 · $28k
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
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
3
Jefferson National Parks Association

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.

Arts & Culture
4
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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

Animals
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
The National Park Service Employee and Alumni Trust Fund

Foster, maintain and improve the morale of nps employees and to promote close ties with current nps members and nps alumni.

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7
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
8
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
9
Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development
10
Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
11
Nevada Public Radio

Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $241,800 · OtherWEST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGESCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $173,750 · OtherSCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLSFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST TH: $152,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $141,101 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHEATRE WEST: $118,500 · OtherTHEATRE WESTIndividual grant recipient: $117,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPSTONE: $117,500 · OtherCAPSTONECIRRUS HOUSE INC: $111,550 · OtherCIRRUS HOUSE INC+45 more: $888,600 · Other+45 morePANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $176,800 · AnimalsPANHANDLE HUMANE…SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY: $137,000 · AnimalsSPIRIT KEEPER EQ…MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $125,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQU…PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $30,000 · AnimalsPETS FOR PATRIOT…CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR A HUM…+1 more: $14,000 · AnimalsWEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER: $163,500 · Arts & CultureWEST NEBRASKA…LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLEGACY OF THE…PBS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIO…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBL…FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER: $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DOVES PROGRAM: $40,500 · Human ServicesCASA DE PEREGRINOS: $40,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $19,000 · Human ServicesMESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $15,000 · Human ServicesLIVING ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesMESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $7,500 · Human ServicesPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN: $95,000 · Environment+3 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationPEO Foundation: $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCE: $18,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationFESTIVAL OF HOPE: $49,000 · HealthREGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthAMADOR HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$2,062,801Animals$512,800Arts & Culture$411,000Human Services$205,000Environment$102,500Education$86,500Health$84,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $176,800 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetWEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER: $163,500 over 7y, 32% of budgetLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetSPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY: $137,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCIRRUS HOUSE INC: $111,550 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPLATTE RIVER BASIN ENVIRONMENTS IN: $95,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetFESTIVAL OF HOPE: $49,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetOREGON TRAIL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DOVES PROGRAM: $40,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCASA DE PEREGRINOS: $40,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL WEST FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEO Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S READING ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER: $17,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNPR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMADOR HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJARDIN DE LOS NINOS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMESILLA VALLEY FILM SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,500 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.

  • 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 CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY 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 ↗
  • Who funds LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Oregon Trail Communit…Quivey-Bay State Foun…G a Fliesbach Foundat…Cw Yount Foundation I…Reardon - Mohr Founda…Community Foundation …The Stocker FoundationLockwood FoundationBonnie Korlick Privat…United Way of Western…Enchanted Life Founda…Robert B Daugherty Fo…
Oregon Trail Community FoundationNE26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Fliesbach Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fliesbach Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Fliesbach Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Fliesbach Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 88 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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