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The Krieger 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lincoln Littles | $92,672 |
| Lincoln Community Fdn - Early Child | $21,630 |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund Inc | $15,000 |
| HeadStart | $8,333 |
| Nebraska State Historical Society | $8,333 |
| University of Nebraska Fnd | $5,785 |
| Kappa Kappa Gamma | $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 (FY17–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $22k · revenue +57%
- CHCAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY4× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +131%
- YOYMCA OF LINCOLN2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LPLincoln Public Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $12k
- LCLincoln Community Fndone grant, 2022 · $11k
- LPLincoln Parks Recreationone grant, 2018 · $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.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To address the root causes of animal homelessness in lincoln, nebraska and surrounding communites.
To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members
To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.
The foundation is dedicated to the development and implementation of the food bank, an organization exempt under code section 501(c)(3).
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Community development in lincoln, ne
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
The lincoln county foood bank is organized to provide food assistance to those individuals who are economically disadvantaged and without adequate food sources.
Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Lincoln and the most unlike its peers is Panhandle Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 49 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 Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREEN LIVING SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HOUSING CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds WE CAN DO THIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA TRANSITION COLLEGE ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Donlan Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Foundation · Spreetail 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 Krieger 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.
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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