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Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.6MYouth Development$950kHousing & Shelter$930kCrime & Legal$465kCommunity Improvement$454kFood & Nutrition$385kHealth$347kEducation$278kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $925k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$922k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TOGETHER INC OMAHA$70,000
OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY$70,000
HEART MINISTRY CENTER$65,000
GO BEYOND NEBRASKA$60,000
SHARE MY SMILE$55,000
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$53,000
CASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY NEBRASKA$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS$50,000
OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 12%SHARE MY SMILE: $64k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 12%SHARE MY SMILE: $55k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%SHARE MY SMILE: $41k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $35k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY INC: $25k → 12%CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA: $20k → 12%CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA: $20k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $50k → 12%OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY: $30k → 12%MAYS FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY: $20k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $50k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $35k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $35k → 12%MOMMENTUM: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $77k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $70k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $39k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $36k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $30k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL CENTER: $20k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER: $70k → 12%OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY: $70k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $53k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $50k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $40k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $38k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $38k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $30k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $30k → 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

WA
MN
IL
IA
PA
CO
NE
MO
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 80 repeat orgs$871k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
66

Total granted

$8.1M
$547k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • YE
    YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +109%
  • OB
    OMAHA BY DESIGN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $246k · revenue +224%
  • KC
    KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • LF
    LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • WC
    WOODBINE COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCNT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2024 · $31k
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
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
North Omaha Collective

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.

Human Services
3
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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4
Hope Haven Inc

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.

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5
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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6
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
7
Hopespoke

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…

Health
8
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

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9
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
11
Omaha ForUs Inc

Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.

Human Services
12
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 163 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/98
Grantees still filing
61/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SINC: $1,510,000 · OtherSINCTHRIVING FAMILIES ALLIANCE: $285,000 · OtherTHRIVING FAMILIES ALLIANCEFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $176,500 · OtherAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $163,722 · Other+103 more: $2,473,209 · Other+103 moreHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $394,200 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $285,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INCKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $235,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTERFAMILY INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY INCSHARE MY SMILE: $180,000 · Human ServicesSHARE MY SMILECHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $162,500 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INCOMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $124,000 · Human ServicesTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $109,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $80,000 · Human Services+20 more: $533,534 · Human Services+20 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $162,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $99,000 · Youth DevelopmentBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: $50,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $422,500 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $81,156 · Housing & ShelterSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterFURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOMAHA BY DESIGN: $245,500 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's Museum: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $10,100 · Arts & CultureCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $162,000 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $60,000 · Crime & LegalCONCORD MEDIATION CENTER: $15,000 · Crime & LegalHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $165,000 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $55,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$4,608,431Human Services$2,398,234Youth Development$636,000Housing & Shelter$603,656Arts & Culture$330,600Crime & Legal$237,000Food & Nutrition$220,000

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 budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $422,500 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $394,200 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $285,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetOMAHA BY DESIGN: $245,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $235,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY INC: $195,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSHARE MY SMILE: $180,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $176,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $165,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $163,722 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $162,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $162,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $162,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetGO BEYOND NEBRASKA: $150,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCarole's House of Hope: $138,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $124,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $109,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $99,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS ACADEMY: $90,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $81,156 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $80,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOMentum: $65,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSIMPLE FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $55,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN HOME ASSN - CHILDREN'S SQUARE USA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWINGS OF REFUGE: $47,069 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $46,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFURNITURE PROJECT OMAHA: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $39,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALL CARE HEALTH CENTER: $39,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $33,465 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES: $32,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE: $29,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMAYS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

  • 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 JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…The Hawks FoundationMutual of Omaha Found…Weitz Family Foundati…Suzanne & Walter Scot…United Way of the Mid…Leland J & Dorothy H …The Charles and Mary …Immanuel Community Vi…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Gilbert M and Martha …
The Lozier FoundationNE123.2× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 163 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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