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The Todd and Betiana Simon Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$119kCrime & Legal$20kRecreation & Sports$15kHousing & Shelter$14kEducation$13kPublic Benefit$12kEnvironment$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
FLIGHT-PATH$1,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
IL
NY
SD
IA
IN
RI
CO
NE
DC
GA
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 21 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
43

Total granted

$95k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • AC
    ARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +96%
  • IS
    INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • FS
    FILM STREAMS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • NC
    NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • MH
    MIDWEST HOUSING EQUITY GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.

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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
Plains Art Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Nebraska Humanities Council

Humanities nebraska helps nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.

—
4
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
5
Hastings Museum

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.

—
6
Omaha Children's Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Opera Omaha Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Aclu Nebraska

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,…

—
9
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
10
Lincoln Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture
11
Aia Nebraska a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

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.

—
12
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILM STREAMS INC: $50,000 · OtherFILM STREAMS INCPACE: $10,000 · OtherPACEWESTSIDE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherFONTENELLE NATURE ASSOCIATION: $5,250 · Other+49 more: $81,805 · Other+49 moreCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCASA FOR …CIVIC NEBRASKA: $10,000 · Civil RightsBlack Votes Matter Institute of Community Engagement: $7,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $700 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $15,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S ROOM: $12,000 · EducationBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC: $2,000 · EducationMIDWEST HOUSING EQUITY GROUP INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$154,055Crime & Legal$20,000Civil Rights$18,200Philanthropy$16,500Community Improvement$15,000Education$14,000Housing & Shelter$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S ROOM: $12,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetMIDWEST HOUSING EQUITY GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlack Votes Matter Institute of Community Engagement: $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT PLAINS BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,256 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE UGANDA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOREST CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLIGHT-PATH: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PSI UPSILON FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA COMMUNITIES PLAYHOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAQUA-AFRICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM: $825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA BRASS BAND INC: $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN G NEIHARDT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $45 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Sherwood Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…The Lozier FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…The Holland FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Fred and Eve Simo…John K & Lynne D Boye…Annette and Paul Smit…Jewish Federation of …The Hawks Foundation
The Sherwood FoundationNE35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Todd and Betiana Simon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Todd and Betiana Simon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Todd and Betiana Simon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Todd and Betiana Simon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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