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Watley Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Columbus Rescue Mission | $20,000 |
| ASSURE WOMEN'S CENTER | $6,000 |
| MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC | $6,000 |
| THE BANQUET | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MYBRIDGE | $6,000 |
| Heartland Hope Mission | $5,000 |
| Heart Ministry Center | $5,000 |
| Project Hope Inc | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| Africa Inland Mission | $1,200 |
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 (FY19–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Watley Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 50% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MMYBRIDGE3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +30%
- TBTHE BANQUET4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +22%
- PAPOSSIBILITIES AFRICA3× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- FLFeed Lake Highlands Incone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +19%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue +62%
- MCMBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +27%
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.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
To minister to women and their families needing care, support and resources due to pregnancy.
A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.
To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
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…
End hunger together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is Allegro Organizational Solutions 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 35 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 Feed Lake Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds MBCH CHILDREN AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BANQUET ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITIES AFRICA ↗
- Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
- Who funds MATER FILIUS OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DOW RUMMEL VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPERAVITA INSTITUTE ↗
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Growing Good Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Watley Charitable 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.
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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