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Viking Foundation of Lincoln

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$200kHealth$153kEducation$114kYouth Development$81kCrime & Legal$67kFood & Nutrition$59kHousing & Shelter$55kPhilanthropy$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION$7,500
EXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVER$6,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO$6,000
BELMONT COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
IOWA GARDENING FOR GOOD$5,000
FOSTER SQUAD$5,000
DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT$5,000
NEBRASKA APPLESEED$5,000
EVERYBODY WINS IOWA$5,000
NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION$5,000
ACLU OF NEBRASKA$5,000
LINCOLN LITERACY$5,000
LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAREER ACADEMY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING CENTER$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY HAND UP: $3k → 5%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $5k → 6%WEECYCLE: $4k → 8%WOMEN IN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 13%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $5k → 6%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%WEE CYCLE: $3k → 8%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $5k → 6%WEE CYCLE: $2k → 8%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $5k → 6%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $4k → 10%DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT: $4k → 6%CLOTHES TO KIDS: $4k → 12%SAME CAFE: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS: $2k → 12%SAME CAFE: $2k → 12%FOSTER SQUAD: $6k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $3k → 10%WEE CYCLE: $1k → 12%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $3k → 10%WARREN VILLAGE: $8k → 12%REMERG: $7k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $6k → 12%CENTER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $5k → 13%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $3k → 13%CENTER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE: $2k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 13%LINKED 2 LITERACY: $4k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN: $3k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$650k · 51 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
57

Total granted

$650k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+11%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +99%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
  • MA
    MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER
    6× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • EI
    EmergencyRV Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • YO
    YOUTH ON RECORD
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +14%

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
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
2
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
3
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
4
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
5
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
6
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

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7
Refugee Empowerment Center

To resettle refugees in nebraska and provide them the support they need to thrive.

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8
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services
9
Lincoln Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture
10
Family Service Association of Lincoln

Helping families thrive. we are family focused, adaptable, passionate, collaborative, accountable, and preventative.

Human Services
11
Mid-Nebraska Individual Services Inc

To provide a reasonable volume of developmentally disabled services to residents of the surrounding region who are or shall be diagnosed or thought to be developmentally disabled.

Human Services
12
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc

Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals From the Heartland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Hand Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 46. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number12%5%<5yr8%17%5–10yr11%19%10–20yr10%27%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr46%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value12%4%<5yr8%16%5–10yr11%16%10–20yr10%34%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr46%7%55yr+

The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
7%
1,229/17,360

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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 123 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
52/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $29,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTIONMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER — $26,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTERS OF NEBRASKA — $21,000 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS — $17,962 · Other+75 more — $438,665 · Other+75 moreDes Moines Refugee Support — $24,000 · Human ServicesDes Moines Refug…Foster Squad — $11,000 · Human ServicesFoster SquadGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR CO…CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LEGAL…WEECYCLE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWEECYCLEWARREN VILLAGE INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE I…WE CAN DO THIS INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesRemerg — $7,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA — $6,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $4,500 · Human Services+5 more — $14,500 · Human Services+5 moreEVERYBODY WINS - IOWA — $45,500 · EducationEVERYBODY …LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $14,000 · EducationLINCOLN LI…BookGive Inc — $12,500 · EducationBookGive I…ECHO COLLECTIVE — $7,000 · EducationECHO COLLE…STEM Generation Inc — $3,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN CITY LIBRARIES — $3,000 · EducationCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FO…LINCOLN BIKE KITCHEN — $18,400 · Community ImprovementLINCOLN B…EXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVER — $15,000 · Community ImprovementEXTREME C…CROSSPURPOSE — $9,000 · Community ImprovementCROSSPURP…CITY IMPACT — $6,000 · Community ImprovementCITY IMPA…MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementMARIA DRO…EARTHLINKS INC — $4,000 · Community ImprovementNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $24,000 · Crime & LegalLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $19,000 · Crime & LegalTHE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER — $2,000 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $30,500 · PhilanthropyFITTING FUTURES — $3,000 · PhilanthropyDESERVING DENTAL ORG — $10,000 · HealthHOPESPOKE — $8,000 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthTALL TALES RANCH — $4,000 · HealthMILKWORKS INC — $3,000 · HealthSEWING FOR BABIES INCORPORATED — $1,000 · Health
Other$533,127Human Services$134,500Education$85,000Community Improvement$82,400Crime & Legal$50,000Philanthropy$33,500Health$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEVERYBODY WINS - IOWA — $45,500 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $30,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CONNECTION — $29,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER — $26,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED — $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDes Moines Refugee Support — $24,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD VOTERS OF NEBRASKA — $21,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $19,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN BIKE KITCHEN — $18,400 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVER — $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLINCOLN MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $14,500 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMOURNING HOPE — $14,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKARIS COMMUNITY — $13,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRESH START INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBookGive Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoster Squad — $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE — $10,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWEECYCLE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDESERVING DENTAL ORG — $10,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEARTLAND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEmergencyRV Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE — $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER — $8,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPESPOKE — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Horizons Adult Day Center — $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE CAN DO THIS INC — $7,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSENIORS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetECHO COLLECTIVE — $7,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBella Boutique — $6,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY IMPACT — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN IN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSO ALL MAY EAT INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMETRO CARING — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROPS — $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHLINKS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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 Fou…Cooper FoundationAbel FoundationSpreetail FoundationRogers FoundationColorado Gives Founda…United Way of Lincoln…The Denver FoundationD F Dillon FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Jc & Jessie Seacrest …The Colorado Health F…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE69.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Denver Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · The Colorado Health 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 Viking Foundation of Lincoln 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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