· Private foundation
The Gfh & Sah Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE GFH & SAH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| JESUIT ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| CUES | $25,000 |
| DURHAM MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $20,000 |
| LAURITZEN GARDENS | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $278k) 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 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 +48% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- CSCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +60%
- CFCUES FUND6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +117%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $97k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- OSOMAHA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- CPCREIGHTON PREPATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $107k
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue +7%
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.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
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.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Okoboji Foundation. 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 52 years old; the field is 17. 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.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF AK-SAR-BEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE TAKES ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Walter Scott Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Kim 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 Gfh & Sah 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.