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Weitz Family 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 $10k1 grant · $15
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k71 grants · $7.9M
- $250k+25 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW | $606,500 |
| NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $531,500 |
| CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVANCEMENT | $530,000 |
| NEBRASKA FORWARD | $500,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| SEVENTY FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORP | $493,000 |
| UNO SERVICE LEARNING | $490,000 |
| ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC | $475,000 |
| UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART | $450,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS NEBRASKA | $400,000 |
| EDUCATION RIGHTS COUNSEL | $400,000 |
| CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS | $375,000 |
| HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER | $375,000 |
| LATINO CENTER OF THE MIDLANDS | $375,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS BLACK MUSEUM | $360,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
242 repeat relationships — 140 still active in FY2025, 102 since wound down; 28 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +70%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE2× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +39%
- TUTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +119% · 68% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSEVENTY FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION OMAHAone grant, 2017 · $500k
- OCOMAHA COMMUNITY FDN FLATWATER FREE PRESSone grant, 2021 · $350k
- ENEMPOWERMENT NETWORKone grant, 2017 · $290k
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.
To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
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.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc and the most unlike its peers is Susan Laflesche Picotte Center. 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 18 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
234 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. 234 of the 371 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NO MORE EMPTY POTS ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Education Rights Counsel ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEVENTY-FIVE NORTH REVITALIZATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPENSKY POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST ↗
- Who funds SPARK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YATES FUND ↗
- Who funds I BE BLACK GIRL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
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: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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 Weitz Family 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.
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
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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