· Private foundation
The Todd and Betiana Simon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FLIGHT-PATH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CFCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +10%
- ACARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +96%
- ISINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- FSFILM STREAMS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +6%
- NCNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENTone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +9%
- PPACEone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The plains art museum brings people and art together. as a public institution we celebrate the finest of human achievement and inspire and engage diverse audiences in the creation, exhibition, collection, and preservation of art.
Humanities nebraska helps nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
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.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Aia nebraska is the nebraska society of the american institute of architects. the american institute of architects is the voice of the architectural profession and the resource for its members in service to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Solomon R Guggenheim 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 28 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) — 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 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 67 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 FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S ROOM ↗
- Who funds PACE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST HOUSING EQUITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Black Votes Matter Institute of Community Engagement ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE UGANDA ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC ↗
- Who funds OFFUTT ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PSI UPSILON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds AQUA-AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks 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 Todd and Betiana Simon 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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