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Union Pacific Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k192 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k238 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST (DBA KIEWIT LUMINARIUM) | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST | $500,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION | $335,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $325,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - OMAHA | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $35,000 |
| THE HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| EUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
763 repeat relationships — 229 still active in FY2025, 534 since wound down; 188 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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 FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +31%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +60%
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +71%
Funded once
- VTVETERANS TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
- OSOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -13%
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 tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
End hunger together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center for the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Colfax Railroad Days Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1722 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. 1722 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
- Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VETERANS TRUST ↗
- Who funds OPAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MABAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COFFEYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-PLAINS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maywood Fine Arts Association ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Teresa Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds KOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds POTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOOKING FOR LINCOLN HERITAGE COALITION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS AREA CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
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: Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Holland Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott 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 Union Pacific 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.
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc — 6% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Portland Baroque Orchestra — 1% of income from government
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.