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Webster Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$577kArts & Culture$398kHousing & Shelter$189kEnvironment$159kFood & Nutrition$129kYouth Development$129kRecreation & Sports$121kReligion$102kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$86,000
HEART MINISTRIES$20,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$15,000
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND$15,000
OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,000
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$15,000
PROJECT HARMONY$15,000
COMPLETELY KIDS$15,000
OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
DURHAM MUSEUM$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY- NE CHAPTER$10,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE$10,000
SAMUEL BAK MUSEUM$10,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION$10,000
OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $10k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $6k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $6k → 12%OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY FDN: $2k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FDN: $2k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $15k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $15k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $15k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $10k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $6k → 12%WOMENS CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $3k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $15k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $15k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $12k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $7k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $4k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $1k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 54 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against -65% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
7

Total granted

$2.0M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
-65%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +70%
  • OP
    OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +80%
  • CK
    COMPLETELY KIDS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • D
    DOSPACE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CW
    COVERED WATERS
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • NC
    NEW CASSEL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +173%
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
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
2
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
3
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
4
Opera Omaha Inc

Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.

Arts & Culture
5
Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports
6
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
7
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Omaha Botanical Center Inc

We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.

Environment
10
Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health
11
Lincoln Children's Museum

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

Arts & Culture
12
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum; the most unlike its peers is Kim Foundation. 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

38 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. 38 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $106,000 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY- NE CHAPTER: $105,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY- NE CHAPTERLAURITZEN GARDENS: $80,000 · OtherLAURITZEN GARDENSFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $66,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $65,000 · OtherOMAHA PERFORMING ARTSHEART MINISTRIES: $58,000 · OtherHEART MINISTRIESTRINITY CATHEDRAL: $40,000 · OtherNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherOMAHA SYMPHONY: $33,500 · OtherSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $48,000 · OtherOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $41,000 · Other+26 more: $219,300 · Other+26 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $404,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA F…AVENUE SCHOLARS: $18,000 · EducationBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $15,500 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $91,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGENC…HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $63,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE…OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISS…THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE OMAHA HOME…NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $19,750 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILD…+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $50,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHA…JOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $22,500 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN AR…OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $22,100 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CON…MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $19,400 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…OMAHA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $17,250 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CHA…Blue Barn Theatre: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBlue Barn…Omaha Children's Museum: $13,500 · Arts & CultureOmaha Chi…+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPLETELY KIDS: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $28,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT HARMONY: $77,500 · Crime & LegalScottish Rite Foundation of Omaha: $35,500 · HealthBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $8,000 · Health
Other$931,800Education$439,500Human Services$271,250Arts & Culture$165,250Youth Development$128,500Crime & Legal$77,500Health$54,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $404,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $95,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $91,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $77,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $66,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $63,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $50,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $48,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetScottish Rite Foundation of Omaha: $35,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $22,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $19,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $19,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $17,250 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $6,800 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetOFFUTT ADVISORY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR RADIO: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIM FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CASSEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Scottish Rite Foundation of Omaha ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
  • Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationThe Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…The Charles and Mary …Gilbert M and Martha …Leland J & Dorothy H …Weitz Family Foundati…Richard Brooke Founda…The Holland FoundationAmy L Scott Family Fo…Burlington Capital Fo…
The Sherwood FoundationNE43.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Burlington Capital 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 Webster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Webster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Webster Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Webster Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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