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The Temme Foundation at a glance

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The Temme 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.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$113kHuman Services$60kHealth$25kReligion$11kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICE$50,000
ST TERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$16,000
VILLA MARIE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CIVIC NEBRASKA$5,000
LINCOLN NORTHSTAR HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
LINCOLN LITTLES$5,000
LINCON ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE$2,000
NE CROSSROADS MUSIC FESTIVAL$1,500
LINCOLN HIGH BOOSTERS$500
LINKED 2 LITERACY$500
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 8%LINKED 2 LITERACY: $500 → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE: $2k → 13%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.
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
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
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
2
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
3
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
4
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
5
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

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6
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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7
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

To provide family practice training and, in support of that end, relevant healthcare education and services.

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8
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
9
Lincoln Total Community Action Inc

Early childhood development.

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10
Lincoln United Community Coalition
Community Improvement
11
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
12
Nebraska Vocational Agricultural Foundation

Nonprofit corporation which provides leadership development and enhancement through educational programs and opportunities for community involvement.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educare of Lincoln Inc; the most unlike its peers is Linked2Literacy. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICE: $50,000 · OtherLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICEST TERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherST TERESA CATHOLIC SCHOOLLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherLINCOLN PARKS FOUNDATIONVILLA MARIE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherVILLA MARIE HIGH SCHOOLHOUSE OF PRAYER: $6,000 · OtherLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherSLAVIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherLINCOLN NORTHSTAR HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherLINCOLN LITTLES: $5,000 · OtherVILLA MARIE SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $3,700 · OtherST OLAF COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC: $24,458 · EducationEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INCDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,099 · EducationDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH F…CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBryan Foundation: $25,000 · HealthBryan Foun…LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE: $2,000 · Human ServicesLinked2Literacy: $500 · Human ServicesLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $10,000 · AnimalsCIVIC NEBRASKA: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$120,700Education$75,557Health$25,000Human Services$12,500Philanthropy$10,000Animals$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryan Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC: $24,458 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIMENSIONS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,099 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN HAYMARKET DEVELOPMENT CORP: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationLee and Debbie Stuart…Assurity Life Foundat…Duncan Family TrustD F Dillon FoundationSpreetail FoundationHarbor of Dreams IncKinder Porter Scott F…Bettenhausen Family F…Cooper FoundationNebraska Community Fo…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · D F Dillon Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Harbor of Dreams Inc · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Nebraska Community 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 Temme Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Temme Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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