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The Landen 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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$104kEducation$102kArts & Culture$82kHealth$74kYouth Development$73kReligion$60kHousing & Shelter$48kRecreation & Sports$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
ONE WORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$5,000
PROJECT HARMONY$5,000
CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
OMAHA POLICE FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHSTAR$4,000
MUNROE-MEYER INSTITUTE$3,500
GIRLS INC OF OMAHA$3,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$3,000
AVENUE SCHOLARS$3,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA$2,500
SANTA MONICA HOUSE$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$2,500
HEART MINISTRY$2,500
BOYS TOWN$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) 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.

area typical 9%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $2k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $3k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$773k · 39 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
6

Total granted

$773k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+60%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +70%
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +214%
  • PH
    PROJECT HARMONY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +60%
  • OP
    OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +165%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Omaha Sports Commission

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

5
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
6
Opera Omaha Inc

Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.

Arts & Culture
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc

Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.

Human Services
9
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
10
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

11
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
12
Concord Mediation Center

Organized for the purpose of assisting individuals and groups in the resolution and management of conflicts, promoting public awareness and understanding of alternative dispute resolutions, providing educational materials, workshops and…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY — $69,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNORTHSTAR — $37,000 · OtherNORTHSTARONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $26,500 · OtherCHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $24,000 · OtherCOMPLETELY KIDS WEEKEND FOOD PGM — $22,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $22,500 · OtherWCA — $22,000 · OtherMUNROE-MEYER INSTITUTE — $20,500 · OtherMETRO COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS — $19,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $21,500 · OtherOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $21,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC — $19,500 · OtherSANTA MONICA INC — $19,000 · Other+21 more — $155,000 · Other+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $42,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…AVENUE SCHOLARS — $21,500 · EducationAVENUE SC…JOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $16,500 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HARMONY — $37,500 · Crime & LegalGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $33,500 · Youth DevelopmentOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $21,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $5,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE — $5,000 · Human ServicesCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $27,500 · Civil Rights
Other$539,000Education$64,000Arts & Culture$56,500Crime & Legal$37,500Youth Development$33,500Human Services$31,000Civil Rights$27,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY — $37,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $33,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc — $27,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE — $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE — $21,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS — $21,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC — $19,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MONICA INC — $19,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCUES FUND — $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $16,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA
  • Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE
  • Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE
  • Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC
  • Who funds SANTA MONICA INC
  • Who funds CUES FUND
  • Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE

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.

Robert B Daugherty FoundationNE30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Mammel Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Kavich Family Charitable 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 Landen 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Landen Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Landen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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