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William Kalina Scholarship Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

William Kalina Scholarship Trust

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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$72k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$6,585
Median grant
1
States reached
$240k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2024 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$15,597
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2021 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$10,249
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2022 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$9,148
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2020 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$7,110
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2023 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$6,585
PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2019 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION$4,163
CARA PIERCE AND UNIVERISTY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA$3,500
ADRIAN DEKONING AND SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,500
MADOLYN GOTTULA AND UNION ADVENTIS UNIVERISTY$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EMILY LYTLE AND DOANE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%EMMA MEINTS AND SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CARA PIERCE AND UNIVERISTY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA: $4k → 12%MADISON FENDER AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $4k → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2024 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $16k → 13%ANDY MALOLEY AND MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%MADISON LYTLE AND DOANE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 9%BRYSEN HORST AND SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 10%KYLE GYHRA AND METROPOLIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $320 → 12%HALLYE FRIEDLY AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $2k → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2021 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $10k → 13%ADRIAN DEKONING AND SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2022 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $9k → 13%MADOLYN GOTTULA AND UNION ADVENTIS UNIVERISTY: $500 → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2020 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $7k → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2023 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $7k → 13%PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2019 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $4k → 13%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 field
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $26,345 · OtherPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2021 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $10,249 · OtherPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2021 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTIONPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2022 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $9,148 · OtherPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2022 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTIONPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2020 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTION: $7,110 · OtherPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - 2020 MAKEUP DISTRIBUTIONMADISON FENDER AND UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN: $3,750 · OtherCARA PIERCE AND UNIVERISTY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA: $3,500 · Other+9 more: $12,070 · Other+9 more
Other$72,172

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $26,345 over 1y, 28% 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 PAWNEE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William Kalina Scholarship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Kalina Scholarship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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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