· Private foundation
The Village Foundation
Its FY2023 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 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEATRE ARTS FOR KIDS | $6,530 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,430 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LINCOLN SOUTHWEST FBLA | $900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $875 |
| LINCOLN EAST FBLA | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $778 |
| HEARTLAND CONSERVATORY OF DANCE | $700 |
| WILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER | $600 |
| NEBRASKA HEALTHCARE ASSOCATION | $476 |
| HEARTLAND YOUTH BALLET | $350 |
| LINCOLN WARRIORS WRESTLING | $280 |
| OMAHA JCC DANCE PROGRAM | $200 |
| SMITTY'S PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $200 |
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 (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHEATRE ART FOR KIDS7× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +77%
- FFFBLA--VARIOUS FBLA CHAPTERS4× · 2017–2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $9k
Funded once
- PPPRICELESS PRETEEN PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $4k
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +103%
- LZLINCOLN ZOO ADVENTUREone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To formulate and make policies which will cultivate high ideals of citizenship, fair competition, sportsmanship and teamwork which will compliment the member schools' curriculum programs.
Promote professional development activities; advocate for issues relating to children and families; serve as a resource for local affiliates and for other agencies involved in working with and for children & families; disseminate…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. activities include child care; youth development through a variety of youth sports, leadership programs and special needs…
Early childhood development.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
To inspire young people and their families to discover the magic of theater, find their voices, and enrich their communities. theater is utilized as a tool in the educational and social development of young people to provide formal…
Educational programs and services to preschool age children
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 62 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.
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: Abel Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Village Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Village Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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