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Wortman Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Wortman Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$422k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$179k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

57% of Wortman Family Charitable Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Wortman Family Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $422k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
0
’20
9
’21
5
’22
6
’23
4
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$125kEducation$96kPhilanthropy$48kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$41kHealth$24kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $339k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER$178,777
AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER$85,000
AURORA HOUSING AUTHORITY$75,000
HAMILTON RECREATION$30,000
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO$24,000
MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO$10,070
EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER$6,050
HEARTLAND UNITED WAY$6,000
PLAINSMAN MUSEUM$5,000
GRACE CANCER FOUNDATION$1,400
AURORA WRESTLING PROGRAM$350
ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$200
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA$50
AURORA ROTARY FOUNDATION$50
Individual grant recipient$20
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VILLAGE OF HORDVILLE: $5k → 8%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $24k → 11%BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER: $380k → 12%NEBRASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3k → 13%PHILLIPS CEMETARY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $24k → 11%BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER: $363k → 12%HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $210k → 8%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $24k → 11%BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER: $179k → 12%AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $85k → 8%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $24k → 11%BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER: $43k → 12%AURORA HOUSING AUTHORITY: $75k → 8%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO: $24k → 11%GRAND ISLAND CHAMBER: $535 → 12%EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $51k → 8%FONNER PARK: $500 → 12%AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 8%AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $44k → 8%AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $42k → 8%HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY: $6k → 12%HAMILTON RECREATION: $30k → 8%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY: $6k → 12%AURORA RECREATION: $21k → 8%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY: $5k → 12%EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $16k → 8%HEARTLAND UNITED WAY: $2k → 12%MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $10k → 8%GRACE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $10k → 8%FIRST LIGHT: $1k → 12%AURORA ADOPT A PET: $10k → 8%AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $10k → 8%HAMILTON RECREATION: $8k → 8%EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $6k → 8%PLAINSMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 8%PLAINSMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 8%PLAINSMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 8%PLAINSMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 8%PLAINSMAN MUSEUM: $5k → 8%EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $3k → 8%AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $3k → 8%HAMILTON RECREATION: $3k → 8%AURORA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2k → 8%MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $1k → 8%EDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $525 → 8%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$1.5M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+66%

Still filing today

38%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • BC
    BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $965k · revenue -7% · 64% of their budget
  • AC
    AURORA CHILD CARE CENTER
    5× · 2019–2023 · $183k
  • CC
    CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • AH
    AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -95%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PC
    PHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -23%
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
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce

Community development and industrial recruiting

Arts & Culture
2
Nebraska City Tourism & Commerce Inc

Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne

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3
Cozad Development Corporation

Foster Business Development in Cozad, NE

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4
Greater Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

To promote the hamilton area for economic development and business purposes.

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5
Chamber of Commerce of Harrison County

Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.

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6
North Platte Area Chamber of Commerce & Developmen

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

Community Improvement
7
Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce

The greater north dakota chamber of commerce works on behalf of our members to advocate for a positive business climate.

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8
Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce

The dickinson area chamber of commerce will provide leadership to promote a progressive business environment.

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9
Holdrege Area Chamber of Commerce

To foster collaborative partnerships to build a thriving community through ongoing visability, involvement, and support for chamber members.

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10
Ashland Area Economic Development Corporation

Economic development in and around ashland nebraska.

Community Improvement
11
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
12
Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote local businesses

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 32 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $964,665 · Recreation & SportsBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC+1 more: $150 · Recreation & SportsAURORA CHILD CARE CENTER: $183,363 · OtherAURORA CHILD CARE CENTEREDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTER: $75,827 · OtherEDGERTON EXPLORIT CENTERAURORA HOUSING AUTHORITY: $75,000 · OtherAURORA HOUSING AUTHORITYHAMILTON RECREATION INC: $40,300 · OtherHAMILTON RECREATION INCMEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $21,813 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,470 · Other+18 more: $31,291 · Other+18 moreHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $240,450 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COMMUN…HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $18,525 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNITE…+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$964,815Other$449,064Philanthropy$259,175Education$120,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $964,665 over 4y, 64% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $240,450 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAMILTON RECREATION INC: $40,300 over 3y, 20% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $18,525 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNebraska Diplomats Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $150 over 3y, 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 BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON RECREATION 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 ↗

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.

Frank M & Alice M Far…Hamilton Community Fo…Bernard K and Norma F…Myrl S & Bessie Evans…Robert & Bethel Kolar…Heartland Bank Founda…Edgar & Frances Reyno…Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Frank M & Alice M Farr TrustNE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wortman Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wortman Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 32 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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