· Private foundation
Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of TODD AND MARY HEISTAND FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $925k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SINC | $300,000 |
| THRIVING FAMILIES ALLIANCE | $145,000 |
| BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY | $84,500 |
| LUTHERNA SERVICES OF NEBRASKA | $75,000 |
| FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER | $70,000 |
| OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY | $70,000 |
| TOGETHER INC OMAHA | $70,000 |
| HEART MINISTRY CENTER | $65,000 |
| GO BEYOND NEBRASKA | $60,000 |
| SHARE MY SMILE | $55,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $53,000 |
| KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS | $50,000 |
| CASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY NEBRASKA | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k 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
- YEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +109%
- OBOMAHA BY DESIGN7× · 2018–2024 · $246k · revenue +224%
- KCKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKone grant, 2023 · $40k
- WCWOODBINE COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $34k
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCNT DE PAULone grant, 2024 · $31k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
Hopespoke is dedicated to meeting the mental health needs of children and their families in the lincoln area and surrounding communities through effective and flexible therapeutic partnerships and a commitment to advocacy and positive…
Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Susan Laflesche Picotte Center. 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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 163 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 MICAH HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE MY SMILE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GO BEYOND NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Carole's House of Hope ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds THE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds MOMentum ↗
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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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 Todd and Mary Heistand Family 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.