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University of Nebraska Foundation

The UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.

$298M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$285M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$2.1BHealth$22MEnvironment$369kMembership Benefit$69k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $530k
  • $250k+4 grants · $296M
$368,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Nebraska$284,724,550
Nebraska Medicine$11,001,214
Wachiska Audubon Society Inc$368,575
The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln$368,000
AGS Gamma Chapter Foundation Inc$230,779
UNMC Alumni Association$230,000
Farmhouse Foundation$69,002
Brown University$24,868
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AGS Gamma Chapter Foundation Inc: $231k → 10%Wachiska Audubon Society Inc: $369k → 13%Farmhouse Foundation: $69k → 15%Brown University: $25k → 14%University of Nebraska: $286.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $285.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $284.7M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $235.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $214.2M → 13%University of Nebraska: $198.8M → 13%University of Nebraska: $193.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $178.8M → 13%University of Nebraska: $166.1M → 13%UNF Charitable Gift Fund: $8.0M → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $541k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln: $368k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln: $368k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln: $368k → 13%THE ALUMNI ASSOC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NE - LINCOLN: $368k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%THE ALUMNI ASSOC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NE - LINCOLN: $350k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%UNF Charitable Gift Fund: $15k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1B · 4 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$2.1B
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+109%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0B
  • NM
    Nebraska Medicine
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20M · revenue +367%
  • AA
    ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Nebraska Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +109%

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
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
University of Nebraska Foundation

The university of nebraska foundation grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.

Education
4
UNeMed Corporation

UNeMed Corporation's mission is to improve healthcare by fostering innovation, advancing biomedical research, and engaging entrepreneurs and industry to commercialize novel technologies.

Education
5
University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

To encourage and support a life-long relationship between the university of northern iowa and its alumni and friends; to promote the interaction of alumni with each other; to promote and advance the interests of the university and its…

6
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

7
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
8
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

9
University of Minnesota Alumni Association

The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…

10
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

11
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the most unlike its peers is The Nebraska Medical Center. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $2,041,643,597 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA+1 more — $69,002 · OtherNebraska Medicine — $19,933,667 · Health+1 more — $6,278 · HealthUNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $7,965,448 · PhilanthropyALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN — $3,412,876 · EducationUNMC Alumni Association — $2,070,000 · EducationAGS GAMMA CHAPTER FOUNDATION INC — $230,779 · EducationWACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $368,575 · EnvironmentBROWN UNIVERSITY — $24,868 · Community Improvement
Other$2,041,712,599Health$19,939,945Philanthropy$7,965,448Education$5,713,655Environment$368,575Community Improvement$24,868

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNebraska Medicine — $19,933,667 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetUNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $7,965,448 over 2y, 87% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN — $3,412,876 over 9y, 15% of budgetUNMC Alumni Association — $2,070,000 over 9y, 28% of budgetFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION — $69,002 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $24,868 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center — $6,278 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.

  • Who funds Nebraska Medicine
  • Who funds UNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
  • Who funds UNMC Alumni Association
  • Who funds WACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds AGS GAMMA CHAPTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 University of Nebraska 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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