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Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$180kFood & Nutrition$84kHuman Services$83kHousing & Shelter$62kYouth Development$32kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Nebraska Diaper Bank$10,000
Visionary Youth$10,000
United Way of North Carolina$10,000
I've Got A Name$5,000
Heartland Cancer Foundation$5,000
Nebraska State Stroke Association$5,000
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 (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 its 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
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 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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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.

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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTERPOINTE INC: $29,000 · HealthCENTERPOINTE INCNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC: $23,000 · HealthNEW YORK BLOOD CENTER …TEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthTEAM JACK FOUNDATION I…CLINIC WITH A HEART INC: $20,000 · HealthCLINIC WITH A HEART IN…HEARTLAND CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthIVE GOT A NAME: $24,000 · Human ServicesIVE GOT A NAMELIGHTHOUSE: $22,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSEMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $20,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & …FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LIN…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 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 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 budgetLIGHTHOUSE: $22,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRESH START INC: $22,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINIC WITH A HEART INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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
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 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

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 Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 22 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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