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The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable 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.

$708k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.6MPhilanthropy$964kCrime & Legal$500kCivil Rights$415kHealth$363kHuman Services$210kPublic Benefit$160kEducation$153kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $623k
$120,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM$200,000
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$177,750
AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET$125,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA - JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$120,000
GREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS$40,000
KINDAIR AT THE BENSON THEATRE$25,000
NDI NEW MEXICO$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $100k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $55k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $50k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $50k → 12%HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER: $60k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 34 repeat orgs$990k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
35

Total granted

$4.7M
$990k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-2%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue +71%
  • NA
    NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    3× · 2020–2023 · $320k · revenue +56%
  • BN
    BALLET NEBRASKA
    2× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • AM
    AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET (FORMERLY BALLETY NE)
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • HW
    HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -58%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2020 · $56k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Omaha Theater Company

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

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4
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
5
Omaha Summer Arts Festival Inc

To present a variety of high quality arts programs and exhibits in Omaha for the general public to enjoy and appreciate.

Arts & Culture
6
Omaha Sports Commission

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
8
Daily Nebraskan

To communicate quality information for and about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community, and thereby, to provide a quality experience for the students involved in its production.

Arts & Culture
9
Omaha Performing Arts Society

The mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to enrich the community through presentation of the highest quality arts and entertainment experiences; education and community engagement programs; and stewardship of three world-class venues - the…

Arts & Culture
10
Nebraska Music Education Association

Professional organization for music educators

Arts & Culture
11
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Kaneko. 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 25 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%16%5–10yr17%26%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr19%18%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%5%<5yr12%14%5–10yr17%23%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr19%17%35–55yr18%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
9%
552/6,049

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
27/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERA OMAHA INC — $713,200 · Arts & CultureOPERA OMAHA INCJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $510,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUMBALLET NEBRASKA — $250,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET NEBRASKAGREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS — $240,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONSBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INCTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INCUnited States Artists Inc — $125,000 · Arts & CultureKindair at the Benson Theatre — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $514,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA - JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL — $165,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UN…AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET (FORMERLY BALLETY NE) — $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET (FO…OMAHA SYMPHONY — $127,500 · OtherOMAHA SYMPHONYINSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION — $87,500 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST EDU…GALLERY 1516 — $75,000 · OtherFILM STREAMS INC — $65,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATI — $56,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION — $55,000 · OtherYATES FUND — $116,000 · OtherYATES FUND+25 more — $553,500 · Other+25 moreOmaha Community Foundation — $372,750 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community F…JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $304,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $255,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $40,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $57,000 · Philanthropy+2 moreJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA — $155,000 · Human ServicesINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $320,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA — $25,000 · Crime & LegalOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC — $200,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $40,000 · HealthTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $40,000 · HealthCIVIC NEBRASKA — $90,000 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE — $70,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$2,772,700Other$1,600,500Philanthropy$1,029,250Human Services$365,000Crime & Legal$345,000Health$330,000Civil Rights$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERA OMAHA INC — $713,200 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $510,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation — $372,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $320,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $304,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION — $255,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBALLET NEBRASKA — $250,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetGREAT PLAINS THEATRE COMMONS — $240,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC — $200,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $170,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA — $155,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYATES FUND — $116,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKindair at the Benson Theatre — $100,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA — $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum — $82,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre — $75,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE — $70,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESPECT2 — $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATER BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS CORP — $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CROSSROADS FESTIVAL — $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKANEKO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…The Lozier FoundationThe Holland FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Annette and Paul Smit…The Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Nebraska Community Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…Union Pacific Foundat…
The Sherwood FoundationNE84.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Union Pacific 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 Fred and Eve Simon Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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