· Private foundation
The Pearle Francis Finigan 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.
The 32 grants below total $647,405 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $691,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $250,000 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $100,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $90,000 |
| Pius X Foundation | $50,000 |
| Lincoln Arts Council | $30,000 |
| Lux Center for the Arts | $21,250 |
| Lincoln Youth Symphony | $13,800 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $10,000 |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $10,000 |
| Union College | $10,000 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $10,000 |
| Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music | $8,000 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $7,755 |
| Lincoln Music Teachers Association | $5,000 |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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 +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $792k · revenue +70%
- NWNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $704k · revenue +21%
- FBFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SPSt. Patricks Churchone grant, 2023 · $50k
- FLFirst Lutheran Churchone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MHMOURNING HOPEone grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue -20%
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.
Educational Music Performance
The Nebraska Crossroads Music Festivals mission is to highlight and celebrate Nebraskas rich cultural heritage through creative and conscientious musical programming and workshops.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
The foundation's purpose is to solicit and receive gifts, bequests and grants for the use and benefit of the lincoln city library.
Lincoln's symphony orchestra will present inspiring experiences that walcome all members to our community to discover and cultivate a profound, personal connection with live orchestral music.
The lincoln symphony orchestra foundation's mission is to support the lincoln symphony orchestra association through the solicitation of donations, the investment of endowment funds and the transfer of approved amounts to the association…
Promote the achievements and aspirations of the university of nebraska - lincoln by engaging its students, alumni, and friends.
To encourage and increase awareness and appreciation of the arts
To Cultivate Lincoln Philanthropy and Stewardship for Today and Tomorrow
To provide traditional educational programs in diverse fields of study, delivered by experienced educators, and leading to outstanding employment opportunities for American and international students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Marianna 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 45 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 70 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 CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music ↗
- Who funds UNION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Jazz Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIANNA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Brass Inc ↗
- Who funds MU PHI EPSILON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEWING FOR BABIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Friends of Opera ↗
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 · D F Dillon Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Abel Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Nebraska Community 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 Pearle Francis Finigan 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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