· Private foundation
The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GILLWELL FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,500 |
| FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| SAVINGS GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS | $5,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA MID AMERICA COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| SHELTERING TREE | $5,000 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE | $3,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +31%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL4× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +19%
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- VVVALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -80%
- RRROCK RANCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +57%
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.
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.
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.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hats That Heal Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 72 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILLWELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN IN NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS 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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
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 Sally Bekins 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.