· Private foundation
The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| OMAHA SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC | $50,000 |
| TEAMATES | $50,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $25,000 |
| FOSTER LOVE | $25,000 |
| ANGELS AMONG US | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS | $20,000 |
| ABIDE NETWORK INC | $15,000 |
| HOPE CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| A TIME TO HEAL | $10,000 |
| FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $10,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against -63% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +70%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +24%- AAANGELS AMONG US8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +315%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $75k
- AHAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UPUNION PACIFIC RAILROAD MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
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 university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arch Foundation Inc. 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Botanical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SOUTH HIGH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds A TIME TO HEAL INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROGRAM - ELKHORN ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · The Nebraska Medical Center · Iowa West Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman 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 Jim and Shirley Young Family 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.
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% 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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