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Union Pacific Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
441
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$12MArts & Culture$11MHealth$6.4MCommunity Improvement$5.0MHuman Services$4.2MRecreation & Sports$3.9MPhilanthropy$3.6MYouth Development$3.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 441 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k192 grants · $1.0M
  • $10k–50k238 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
$10,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST (DBA KIEWIT LUMINARIUM)$600,000
DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST$500,000
MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION$500,000
COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $20k → 13%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 16%EUGENE FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 15%UPEC FRIEND TO FRIEND NETWORK: $25k → 15%CHARLES E LAKIN HUMAN SERVICES CAMPUS FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%TUCSON CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $20k → 15%REDEMPTION PROJECT: $20k → 11%CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $25k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $40k → 9%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20k → 13%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WEST ERN WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $20k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND AND NORTHWEST INDIANA: $20k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION SOCIAL SERVICES & EDUCATION INC: $20k → 22%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $20k → 12%SENIORS FIRST INC: $20k → 6%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $20k → 10%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20k → 12%CENTRO HISPANO: $20k → 8%DENVER INDIAN CENTER INC: $20k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $25k → 12%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $25k → 14%HELMET PEAK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $20k → 15%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $20k → 14%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $20k → 13%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $20k → 12%CIRCLE THE CITY: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $35k → 16%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA INC: $25k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20k → 12%BREAD OF LIFE: $50k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE: $20k → 16%DESERT MISSION INC: $20k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 12%MEET THE STREETS OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 16%BAKERRIPLEY: $20k → 16%URBAN INTIATIVES INC: $25k → 14%URBAN INTIATIVES INC: $20k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250k → 14%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 12%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%SPARK CAPITAL: $29k → 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
ID
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IL
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MA
OR
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IA
IN
OH
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CA
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CO
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MO
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AZ
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KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 764 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

764 repeat relationships: 229 still active in FY2025, 535 since wound down; 191 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

764
1019

Total granted

$46M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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× · 2020–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +31%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +60%
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -13%
  • OS
    OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
  • VT
    VETERANS TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
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
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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2
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
3
United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc

United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

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.

Human Services
8
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
9
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
10
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
11
United Way of Comal County

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county

Philanthropy
12
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center for the Homeless; 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.
04the grantee network

1720 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. 1720 of the 2,000 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
395
Early backer (in before they grew)
1680/1720
Grantees still filing
1029/1720
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $7,532,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $2,400,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUSTUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $2,200,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerce FoundationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $1,000,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST+18 more: $1,093,500 · Education+18 moreMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,510,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOS…SOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT: $600,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST IOWA…+10 more: $522,000 · Health+10 moreOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST (DBA KIEWIT LUMINARIUM): $600,000 · OtherOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST …OMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST: $250,000 · OtherOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $670,000 · OtherOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONSave The Children Federation Inc: $250,000 · Other+102 more: $5,468,484 · Other+102 moreDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN …+4 more: $190,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,545,000 · Arts & CultureOPAS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $984,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,985,000 · PhilanthropyVETERANS TRUST: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOFFEYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $112,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $379,100 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $435,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $73,500 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $70,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHARLES E LAKIN HUMAN SERVICES CAMPUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CLINTON IOWA: $50,000 · Human Services+13 more: $516,000 · Human Services
Education$14,225,500Health$4,632,000Other$7,238,484Community Improvement$3,190,000Arts & Culture$2,779,500Philanthropy$2,726,100Human Services$1,494,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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: $7,532,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $3,000,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $2,400,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $2,200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,985,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,545,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,510,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $670,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST IOWA NONPROFIT FOR COLLECTIVE IMPACT: $600,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $435,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA SHELTER FOR HOMELESS TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVETERANS TRUST: $250,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetOPAS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMABAS FOUNDATION: $185,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $144,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOFFEYVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $112,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMID-PLAINS UNITED WAY INC: $105,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCOLUMBIA BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMaywood Fine Arts Association: $90,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Teresa Charitable Foundation: $90,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $87,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPOTTAWATTAMIE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetLOOKING FOR LINCOLN HERITAGE COALITION: $78,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS AREA CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $73,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $73,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $73,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIOWA JOBS FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES INC: $72,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTY-FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORPORATION: $69,433 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC PULLMAN FOUNDATION DBA FRIENDS OF PULLMAN: $68,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetPaz De Cristo Community Center: $67,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 3.1% 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.

Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Mutual of Omaha Found…The Lozier FoundationWeitz Family Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…The Hawks FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Gilbert M and Martha …United Way of the Mid…The Holland FoundationSuzanne & Walter Scot…
Peter Kiewit FoundationNE85.1× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
87report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 2000 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home