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Tye Family Foundation at a glance

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Tye Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$47kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k12 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$6,500
WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL$5,000
MOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION$2,000
RECONSIDER$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$1,000
KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
KEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION$1,000
KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION$1,000
MOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
MINNESOTA IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION COMMITTEE$1,000
KEARNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,000
HUMANITIES NEBRASKA$750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%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
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 13 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$135k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+26%

Still filing today

54%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2021–2026 · $40k · revenue +12%
  • KC
    KEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2022–2026 · $5k · 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 -37%
  • KC
    KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • KA
    KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +67%
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
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

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3
Buffalo County Agricultural Association

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

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4
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.

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5
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
6
Kearney Area Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture
7
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.

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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
Keene Endowment Association

Keene Endowment Association (KEA) helps donors to provide scholarships for Keene State College (KSC) students and resources to enhance their education. The KEA Board also helps to give donors the assurance that their philanthropy will make…

Education
10
Kenosha Co Archaeological Society
Arts & Culture
11
Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation

The nebraska state historical society foundation's mission is to support the preservation, interpretation and appreciation of nebraska history.

Arts & Culture
12
Kearney Visitors Bureau

Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kearney Area Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Arc of Buffalo County. 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, 2017–2026.

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. 22 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBARRYVILLE FARMERS MARKET INC: $14,500 · OtherBARRYVILLE FARMERS MARKET INCMOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherMOBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONRECONSIDER: $8,500 · OtherRECONSIDERYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 · OtherYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INCKEARNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Other+21 more: $20,800 · Other+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $39,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATI…WOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOLKEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,250 · PhilanthropyKENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 · Human ServicesKENESAW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterARC OF BUFFALO COUNTY: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$85,700Education$47,500Arts & Culture$13,500Recreation & Sports$11,500Philanthropy$6,250Human Services$4,500Housing & Shelter$3,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOBRIDGE RODEO FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK DAY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $6,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLEGACY OF THE PLAINS MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetARC OF BUFFALO COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cope Ron & Carol Foun…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…Kearney Area Communit…Hirschfeld Family Fou…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Bokenkamp Family …Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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