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The Holland 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 $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+11 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA OMAHA | $30,359,157 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION | $1,933,058 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $1,314,862 |
| PARTNERSHIP 4 KIDS INC | $715,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $500,000 |
| OMAHA SYMPHONY | $450,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $415,000 |
| AMERICAN MIDWEST BALLET | $350,000 |
| NEBRASKA APPLESEED | $325,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| KANEKO | $155,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND | $150,000 |
| NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT | $150,000 |
| ONE WORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +70%
- OPOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +120%
- P4Partnership 4 Kids Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +49% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- HSHERITAGE SERVICES COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $4.9M
- FFFATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS HOMEone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- AOAll Our Kids Inc Foundationone grant, 2021 · $864k · revenue -9%
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.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
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.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater 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.
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Kim 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 27 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 155 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 OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Partnership 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds BALLET NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha 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 Holland 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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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