· Private foundation
The Giving 3 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
- $250k+9 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS | $450,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $300,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $300,000 |
| STRONGMINDS | $250,000 |
| CARPLS | $250,000 |
| ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB | $250,000 |
| CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| NEW INCENTIVES | $100,000 |
| UPTOWN PEOPLE'S LAW CENTER | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR NONVIOLENCE CHICAGO | $100,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $100,000 |
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, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +8% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 19 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- PHPROJECT HARMONY5× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +117%
- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS3× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +214%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
- JFJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +40%
- BEBETH EL SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
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Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Lyon Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 113 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 PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Uptown People's Law Center ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Institute for Nonviolence Chicago ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PETER MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE SERVICES ↗
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: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard 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 Giving 3 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.
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