· Private foundation
The Rebensdorf Family 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA | $9,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $7,500 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $7,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OMAHA CITY COMMAND | $6,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| HETRA (HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC) | $6,000 |
| WORLD HERALD GOODFELLOWS CHARITIES | $6,000 |
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL RAILROAD HALL OF FAME | $5,500 |
| CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OMAHA | $5,000 |
| A TIME TO HEAL | $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 (FY17–25, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Rebensdorf Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +70%
- MPMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +22%
- CSCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA8× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- UPUNION PACIFIC RAILROAD MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- NRNATIONAL RAILROAD HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2021 · $4k
- FOFRIENDS OF SP4449 INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -95%
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.
Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Erath Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 107 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 MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A TIME TO HEAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds The Tabitha Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Mammel Family 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 Rebensdorf 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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