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The Further Foundation

DSN helps persons, both children and adults, with mental health issues and/or developmental disabilities gain skills, knowledge and experience to increasingly use and benefit from the resources and settings available to all citizens in our community.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$226kHuman Services$132kYouth Development$127kInternational$99kEmployment$84kPhilanthropy$70kHousing & Shelter$52kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEBRASKA TRANSITION COLLEGE$10,000
CENTERPOINTE INC$10,000
KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$10,000
NEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS$10,000
VISIONARY YOUTH$10,000
AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP$10,000
THE ARC OF LINCOLN$10,000
THE CRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL AS$10,000
REFUGEE WOMEN RISING$10,000
NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $24k → 12%GOOD LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 13%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $10k → 12%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $39k → 12%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $16k → 12%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $13k → 12%VISIONARY YOUTH: $10k → 13%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $13k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $18k → 12%CHILDRENS RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $24k → 12%CHILDRENS RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $15k → 12%REFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $29k → 12%REFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $10k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$457k · 9 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$457k
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
0%

Still filing today

67%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +248%
  • CR
    CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +77%
  • RW
    REFUGEE WOMEN RISING
    2× · 2022–2025 · $39k · revenue +228% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • SM
    ST MONICA'S HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -8%
  • WR
    WHISPERING ROOTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $39k · revenue -22%
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
Refugee Empowerment Center

To resettle refugees in nebraska and provide them the support they need to thrive.

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2
Nebraska Family Support Network

To provide support and advocacy to families of children. build confidence in parents by providing the necessary tools for appropriate decisions and actions. informing parents of their rights and to assist in problem resolution.

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3
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
4
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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5
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
6
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
7
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
8
Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska

Justice for our neighbors-nebraska is a nonprofit organization welcoming immigrants into our communities by providing free, high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
10
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
11
Nebraska Casa Association

The nebraska casa association partners with local casa programs to recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal
12
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Children & Families Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Roper Organization of Parents and Educators Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
14/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - NEBRASKA CHAPTER: $62,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - NEBRASKA C…NEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUC: $58,000 · OtherNEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPME…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $33,800 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PRO: $25,850 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION OF …The Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund: $15,600 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $23,800 · OtherLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUM…NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS: $20,000 · OtherNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS+9 more: $74,350 · Other+9 moreINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $99,300 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REF…CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $38,800 · Human ServicesCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTERREFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $38,500 · Human ServicesREFUGEE WOMEN RISINGRESTORING DIGNITY: $17,700 · Human ServicesRESTORING DIGNITYSOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,600 · Human ServicesSOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES INCGOOD LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY YOUTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY: $96,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA YOUT…ST MONICA'S HOME: $50,000 · HealthST MONICA'S …ANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 · HealthANGELS AMONG…CENTERPOINTE INC: $10,000 · HealthCENTERPOINTE…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…NEBRASKA TRANSITION COLLEGE: $10,000 · HealthNEBRASKA TRA…NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA C…AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAUTISM ACT…REGION V FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyREGION V F…KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY AR…WHISPERING ROOTS INC: $39,000 · InternationalLAUNCH LEADERSHIP INC: $10,000 · EducationDIBS for Kids: $10,000 · EducationROPER ORGANIZATION OF PARENTS AND EDUCATORS INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$313,400Human Services$229,900Youth Development$106,700Health$95,000Philanthropy$80,000International$39,000Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $99,300 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY: $96,700 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MONICA'S HOME: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHISPERING ROOTS INC: $39,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $38,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEE WOMEN RISING: $38,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $23,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNONPROFIT ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRESTORING DIGNITY: $17,700 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund: $15,600 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAUNCH LEADERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGOOD LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREGION V FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIBS for Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA TRANSITION COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF LINCOLN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSURVIVORS RISING: $7,250 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROPS: $5,700 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGeneration Diamond Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Sherwood Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…The Lozier FoundationLincoln Community Fou…The Hawks FoundationCooper FoundationMutual of Omaha Found…United Way of the Mid…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Abel FoundationImmanuel Community Vi…Peter Kiewit Foundati…
The Sherwood FoundationNE45.5× affinity20 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 · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Hawks Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Abel Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit 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 Further Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Further Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Further Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Further 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 38 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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