Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth
Nebraska City, NE · EIN 47-0662109. Reported 103 grants totalling $4,076,006 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $850 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebr City Veteran's Memorial Bldg | Nebraska City, NE | $695,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lourdes Central Catholic School | Nebrask City, NE | $500,850 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nebr City Public School Foundation | Nebrask City, NE | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Nebraska City | Nebraska City, NE | $403,926 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ne Country School Association Inc | Auburn, NE | $309,427 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Benedict Catholic Church | Nebraska City, NE | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Hospital Foundation | Nebraska City, NE | $216,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Benedict Catholic Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $208,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Mary's Catholic Church | Nebraska City, NE | $175,573 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Sorrowful | Nebraska City, NE | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department | Dunbar, NE | $81,260 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kregel Windmill Factory Museum | Nebraska City, NE | $62,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Region V Sercies Nebraska City | Nebraska City, NE | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nebr City Center for Children & Fam | Nebraska City, NE | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nebraska City Museum | Nebraska Ciyt, NE | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Civil War Veteran's Museum | Nebraska City, NE | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nebr City Fastpitch Softball | Nebraska City, NE | $34,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Talmage Rescue Squad | Talmage, NE | $27,718 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mo River Basin Lewis & Clark Center | Nebraska City, NE | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christ Evangelical Lutheran | Nebraska City, NE | $23,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Merrymakers Association | Omaha, NE | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Civil War Veterans Museum Gar Hall | Nebraska City, NE | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Catron | Nebraska City, NE | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nebraska City Historical Society | Nebraska City, NE | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts Spirit of Ne Camp Catro | Nebraska City, NE | $18,470 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nebr City Civil War Veterans Museum | Nebraska City, NE | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel United Church of Christ | Nebraska City, NE | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kregel Windmill Factory Mus | Nebraska City, NE | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nebraska City Food Pantry | Nebraska City, NE | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Nebraska City Creative Dist | Nebraska City, NE | $13,382 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Otoe County Veterans Van | Nebrask City, NE | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Senca | Nebraska City, NE | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Knights of Columbus Food Bank | Nebraska City, NE | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish | Omaha, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make-a-Wish of Nebraska City | Lincoln, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Otoe Co Respite & Companion | Nebrask City, NE | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Otoe County Handi Bus | Nebrask City, NE | $9,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Marys Catholic Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cowles Hill Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nebraska City Ministeral Assoc | Nebraska City, NE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Team Mates of Nebraska City | Nebraska City, NE | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gnsef | Nebraska City, NE | $4,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Otoe County Veterans Assoc | Nebraska City, NE | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Knights of Columbus | Nebraska City, NE | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue Rivers Area Agency on Aging | Beatrice, NE | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Benedicts Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Mary's Catholic Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cowles Hill Cemetery Assoc | Nebraska City, NE | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wyuka Cemetery | Nebraska City, NE | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
17 of 49 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 75%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Ne Country School Association Inc
RESTORATION GRANT - HARMONY SCHOOL - Nebr City Veteran's Memorial Bldg
ROOF, GUTTERS, ELECTRICAL GRANT - City of Nebraska City
FORT KEARNEY LOOKOUT PAVILION - St Mary's Hospital Foundation
GROWING GREAT KIDS PROGRAM GRANT - Nebraska City Historical Society
OLD FREIGHTERS MUSEUM RENO - Make-a-Wish of Nebraska City
ISH FOR CHILD WITH CRITICAL ILLNESS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $896,900 | $8,750 |
| 2022 | 24 | $1,321,027 | $4,500 |
| 2023 | 23 | $588,110 | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 30 | $1,269,969 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Nebraska.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 9, Nebraska City, NE, 68410. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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