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The NBK 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$122kArts & Culture$113kEnvironment$71kFood & Nutrition$61kYouth Development$17kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST$70,000
MUSICA SACRA LIMITED$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FONTENELLE FOREST: $3k → 6%WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $1k → 7%KREGEL WINDMILL MUSEUM COMPANY: $1k → 10%WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%STUHR MUSEUM OF THE PRAIRIE PIONEER: $1k → 12%GOTHENBURG PONY EXPRESS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 12%WINTER QUARTERS-FLORENCE MILL INC: $500 → 12%NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER: $500 → 16%BRIDGE SCHOOL: $500 → 7%GLIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 10%DEATH VALLEY NATURAL HISTORY: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF WATTS TOWERS ARTS CENTER: $500 → 14%SALVATION MOUNTAIN INC: $500 → 21%ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%SOUTHWEST MUSEUM OF CLOCKS & WATCHES: $1k → 15%THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT: $500 → 21%SAINT BERNARD ABBEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%FRIENDS OF S P DINSMOORS GARDEN OF EDEN INCORPORAT: $500 → 14%LORRAINE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%MANSFIELD REFORMATORY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $500 → 15%FRIENDS OF SERPENT MOUND: $500 → 20%GOLDWELL OPEN AIR MUSEUM: $1k → 15%UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $30k → 12%UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $14k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1k → 12%GREAT PLAINS BLACK MUSEUM AND INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $1k → 12%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $10k → 12%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $6k → 12%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $1k → 12%FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $43k → 12%CITY OF OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%OMAHA MUNICIPAL LAND BANK: $41k → 12%FILM STREAMS INC: $10k → 12%SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $7k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1k → 12%OMAHA CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $1k → 12%TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $70k → 12%FILM STREAMS INC: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $2k → 12%FILM STREAMS INC: $1k → 12%OMAHA BOTANICAL CENTER INC: $25k → 12%THE DURHAM MUSEUM: $1k → 12%AMPLIFY ARTS: $1k → 12%OMAHA BIKES: $2k → 12%EL MUSEO LATINO: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
NV
IA
OH
CA
NE
KS
TN
LA
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 19 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
31

Total granted

$160k
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST
    2× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +349%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +13%
  • DV
    Death Valley Natural History Association
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • OP
    OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -17%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +29%
  • OM
    OMAHA MUNICIPAL LAND BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $41k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hastings Museum

The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.

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2
Museum of Nebraska Art

The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…

Arts & Culture
3
Dubuque Museum of Art

To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.

Arts & Culture
4
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
Midwest Museum of Natural History

Mission statement of the midwest museum: encouraging our community's appreciation of natural history using shared experiences through collections, exhibits, and education.

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8
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Museo De Las Americas

The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
11
Smith Museum of Art and Information

The smith museum of art and information has a desire to open a new museum in downtown chicago to install and display stained glass windows and other items of stained glass art, glass paperweight collections, in addition to other artwork to…

Arts & Culture
12
Clarinda Carnegie Museum
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer; the most unlike its peers is Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $43,355 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDOMAHA MUNICIPAL LAND BANK: $41,255 · OtherOMAHA MUNICIPAL LAND BANKMUSICA SACRA LIMITED: $30,000 · OtherMUSICA SACRA LIMITEDACCEPTED FOOD BANK: $17,000 · OtherACCEPTED FOOD BANKFILM STREAMS INC: $12,000 · OtherFILM STREAMS INC+16 more: $15,750 · Other+16 moreCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $71,700 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATIO…+2 more: $1,750 · EducationTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $44,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION FOR CONT…THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER F…+19 more: $15,750 · Arts & Culture+19 moreOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentDeath Valley Natural History Association: $1,500 · EnvironmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $17,192 · Youth DevelopmentSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterGLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH: $1,000 · Religion
Other$209,360Education$73,450Arts & Culture$64,750Environment$26,500Youth Development$17,192Housing & Shelter$7,000Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $71,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $44,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $43,355 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICA SACRA LIMITED: $30,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $17,192 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeath Valley Natural History Association: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDWELL OPEN AIR MUSEUM: $1,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE GRACE MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTUHR MUSEUM OF THE PRAIRIE PIONEER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMPLIFY ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM INC: $750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCAHOKIA MOUNDS MUSEUM SOCIETY: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEIDELBERG PROJECT: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bridge School: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMansfield Reformatory Preservation Society: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION PACIFIC MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington County Historical Association: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM ASSN OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationNebraska Humanities C…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…Annette and Paul Smit…The Charles and Mary …Union Pacific Foundat…Richard Brooke Founda…Gilbert M and Martha …The Holland Foundation
Peter Kiewit FoundationNE38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Holland Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The NBK Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The NBK Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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