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Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$97kHuman Services$96kFood & Nutrition$94kPhilanthropy$68kArts & Culture$29kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$47k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank of Lincoln$15,000
Visionary Youth$10,000
Nebraska Diaper Bank$10,000
United Way of North Carolina$10,000
I've Got A Name$5,000
Nebraska State Stroke Association$5,000
Heartland Cancer Foundation$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $56k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%I've Got A Name: $19k → 13%I've Got A Name: $5k → 13%Visionary Youth: $10k → 13%Lighthouse: $22k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
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
2
Lighthouse for the Homeless

The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.

Human Services
3
The Link Inc

To offer the recovering alcoholic or addict a safe environment in which to live and to offer assistance through professional counseling in the development of personal and social skills to ease the transition to healthy living in society.

Health
4
Midwest Food Bank Nfp

It is the mission of midwest food bank to share the love of christ by alleviating hunger and malnutrition and providing disaster relief.

Human Services
5
Heart Ministry Center

Heart ministry center's mission is to provide food, healthcare, and a way forward to people severely affected by poverty in the omaha area. heart ministry center's core programs include a choice food distribution program, monen healthcare…

Food & Nutrition
6
New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care Inc

New hope integrated behavioral health care, inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides commission on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and nj licensed substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder…

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7
Netcare Corporation

To respectfully provide mental health and substance abuse services to anyone in need.

Health
8
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities in Omaha Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities in omaha (rmhc in omaha) is to create, operate, and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children. we strive to improve the lives of children and their families…

Health
9
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
10
Madison Area Care for the Homeless (Mach) Onehealth Inc

Madison street medicine is on a mission to develop programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the madison area. we envision a community where individuals experiencing housing insecurity have equitable…

Health
11
Lincoln Medical Education Partnership

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

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12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Ne Kansas Inc

To provide lodging to families of hospitalized children at an affordable cost, or no cost, based on need through operation of the ronald mcdonald house.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ive Got a Name. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr20%30%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%31%20–35yr15%43%35–55yr14%10%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
2,676/26,375

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.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTERPOINTE INC — $29,000 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INCNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC — $23,000 · HealthNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER …CLINIC WITH A HEART INC — $20,000 · HealthCLINIC WITH A HEART IN…TEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthTEAM JACK FOUNDATION I…HEARTLAND CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthIVE GOT A NAME — $24,000 · Human ServicesIVE GOT A NAMELIGHTHOUSE — $22,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSEFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LIN…MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $20,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & …VISIONARY YOUTH — $10,000 · Human ServicesVISIONARY YOUTHFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $55,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN I…MAUI FOOD BANK INC — $28,500 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INCNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA DIAPER BANKTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $58,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MADONNA FOUN…UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NO…FRESH START INC — $22,000 · OtherFRESH START INCTHE BRIDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE BEHAVIO…NEBRASKA STATE STROKE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherNEBRASKA STATE STR…PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION — $20,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S CITY MISS…JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $9,500 · OtherJOSHUA COLLINGSWOR…MOURNING HOPE — $29,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education
Health$97,000Human Services$96,000Food & Nutrition$93,500Philanthropy$68,000Other$76,500Arts & Culture$29,000Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MADONNA FOUNDATION — $58,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE — $29,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCENTERPOINTE INC — $29,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIVE GOT A NAME — $24,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START INC — $22,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE — $22,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLINIC WITH A HEART INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPEOPLE'S CITY MISSION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONARY YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationAssurity Life Foundat…Cooper FoundationLee and Debbie Stuart…Acklie Charitable Fou…United Way of Lincoln…The Hampton Family Fo…James Stuart III Fami…Kinder Porter Scott F…Rogers FoundationD F Dillon Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE38.1× affinity16 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 · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Hampton Family Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · D F Dillon 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 Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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