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Unf Charitable Gift Fund
The UNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND was established to enable donors to make charitable donations to multiple organizations, including the university of nebraska.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $322,887 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $338,887 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $131,011 |
| Foster Care Closet | $122,376 |
| Brown University - Division of Advancement | $51,500 |
| Alma United Methodist Church | $10,000 |
| Willa Cather Foundation | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +70%
- LCLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue -7%
- TWTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- SWSUZANNE & WALTER SCOTT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8.0M · revenue +931%
- NPNEBRASKA PANHANDLE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue -40% · 49% of their budget
- NCNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $93k · revenue -12%
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.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Mission: connecting people and resources to strengthen cancer prevention, detection and quality of life in nebraska. vision: conquering cancer together.
Promote the achievements and aspirations of the university of nebraska - lincoln by engaging its students, alumni, and friends.
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Sherman County Prevention Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 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 SUZANNE & WALTER SCOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN COUNTY PREVENTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENE OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Duncan Family Trust · Spreetail Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Abel Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty 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 Unf Charitable Gift Fund 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.
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