· Private foundation
The Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MCCOOK | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| 6TH FLOOR PROJECT | $50,800 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $22,000 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MCCOOK PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MCCOOK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE PLAINS CASA | $7,700 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $7,500 |
| CHASE COUNTY AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| YMCA OF MCCOOK | $6,000 |
| HASTINGS FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $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 (FY19–25, $479k) 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- YOYMCA OF MCCOOK7× · 2019–2025 · $443k · revenue +532%
- MCMCCOOK COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +67%
- HNHILLCREST NURSING HOME FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- CBCATTLEMEN'S BALL OF NEBRASKA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +85%
- MSMAPLE ST CONSTRUCT INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Operation of Historical Museum for the collection, preparation and display of artifacts from Dawson County Nebraska and disseminate and educate the public about Dawson County and it's historical treasures.
Dchv connects modern generations to the past rural life & agricultural heritage in dakota cty through living history interpretation, education, & collection, preservation, & exhibition of information, objects & buildings.
To work to secure private funding and advocate for the public funding at the state and federal levels to support the programs of the nebraska humanities council.
Douglas county historical society works to preserve and enliven historical insight in douglas county, nebraska.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Clarinda Carnegie Museum. 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 24 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 116 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 NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MCCOOK ↗
- Who funds 6TH FLOOR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MCCOOK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST NURSING HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Norris Institute ↗
- Who funds MCCOOK PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCOOK COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PLAINS CASA ↗
- Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MCCOOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CATTLEMEN'S BALL OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCC INDIANS BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MYBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOMETOWN CHARITABLE FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds DUNDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCOOK LEGION BASEBALL BOOSTERSINC PO BOX 568 ↗
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: Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Kitty M Perkins Foundation · Hastings Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Albert G & Bernice F Hansen Charitable Foundation · Sunnyside Inc · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Community Hospital Association of McCook
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 Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff 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.
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