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Tye Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$47kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION$3,200
WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL$3,000
RECONSIDER$3,000
KENESAW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$2,000
MOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
KEARNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,000
MOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION$1,000
MID-AMERICA COUNCIL$1,000
KEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION$1,000
KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
THE WORLD THEATRE$750
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION: $1k → 11%KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION: $1k → 11%KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION: $1k → 11%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$103k · 12 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$103k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +12%
  • KC
    KEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +65%
  • KP
    KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -60%
  • KC
    KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • KA
    KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +253%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Kearney County Community Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
2
Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce

Local area chamber of commerce

3
Kearney Family Ymca Foundation

To provide the kearney family ymca with a stable financial base to carry out it's mission today, while also allowing for growth in the future.

Recreation & Sports
4
Buffalo County Agricultural Association

To provide a variety of events including the county fair and other educational, agricultural, and entertainment events.

5
Crane River Theater Company Inc

The mission of the theater company is to serve the community of kearney, nebraska and surrounding areas as a professional theater production company providing a home for the presentation, education and promotion of the arts.

6
Kearny County Community Foundation

Kearny county community foundation is dedicated to continuance of quality health care in the kearny county area. we strive for advancement of health care, health promotion, health and medical education, research and welfare services.

7
Kearney Area Children's Museum

The kearney area children's museum inspires play, exploration, & discovery through interactive experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Economic Development Council of Buf County Inc

Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.

Community Improvement
9
Kearney Visitors Bureau

Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.

Community Improvement
10
Kansas Association of Conservation Districts

Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas

Community Improvement
11
Kearney Housing Development Corporation

This organization provides services to kearney area individuals in need.

Housing & Shelter
12
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kearney Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Honor the Earth. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARRYVILLE FARMERS MARKET INC — $14,500 · OtherBARRYVILLE FARMERS MARKET INCIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · OtherMOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONRECONSIDER — $6,500 · OtherRECONSIDERYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $6,400 · OtherYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INCKEARNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Other+18 more — $18,050 · Other+18 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $33,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDA…WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL — $3,000 · EducationWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOLLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLEGACY OF …KEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $4,000 · Arts & CultureKEARNEY CO…KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE — $2,500 · Arts & CultureKEARNEY CO…BUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO CO…MOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Recreation & SportsOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,250 · PhilanthropyKENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA — $500 · Human ServicesKENESAW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterARC OF BUFFALO COUNTY — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$68,950Education$36,000Arts & Culture$12,500Recreation & Sports$9,500Philanthropy$5,250Human Services$3,500Housing & Shelter$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $6,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK AND PINK INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARC OF BUFFALO COUNTY — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cope Ron & Carol Foundation TrustNE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tye 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tye Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tye Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 37 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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