· Private foundation
The Rod Rhoden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $316k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $501,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN IOWA | $500,000 |
| METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| IGNITE PATHWAYS | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OMAHA STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SIENNA FRANCIS HOUSE | $7,500 |
| BUFFETT MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DREAMWEAVER | $5,000 |
| PLATTE INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of The Rod Rhoden Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +70%
- FRFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2025 · $171k · revenue +136%
- OSOMAHA STREET SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- OAOFFUTT AIRMANS ATTICone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TDThe Dyslexia Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
- 4S48 STARSone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN IOWA ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MERRYMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dyslexia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US ↗
- Who funds SIOUX FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Dorothy B Davis Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rod Rhoden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rod Rhoden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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