· Private foundation
Wortman Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
- $250k+1 grant · $363k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER | $363,303 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $24,000 |
| PLAINSMAN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO | $1,000 |
| EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER | $525 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| AURORA WRESTLING PROGRAM | $250 |
| GRACE CANCER FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA | $50 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 42 | $40 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of your 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290 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
- BCBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $922k · revenue -7% · 64% of their budget
- ACAURORA CHILD CARE CENTER5× · 2019–2023 · $183k
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- AHAURORA HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $75k
- AHAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -95%
- PCPHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -23%
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.
Community development and industrial recruiting
Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne
Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.
The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.
Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE
To promote the hamilton area for economic development and business purposes.
The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
The organization endeavors to serve the community and members by attracting and recruiting new businesses and jobs, devloping cultural and economic interest, and enhancing the overall business climate of the north platte, nebrask area
Economic development in and around ashland nebraska.
To support, foster, and protect the harrison regional chamber of commerce mission
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bremer Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Diplomats Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA 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: Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation · Myrl S & Bessie Evans Mather Foundation Inc · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Heartland Bank Foundation · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Wortman Family Charitable Trust 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.