How much does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund give?

Adams RBG Empowerment Fund reported 16 grants totaling $228,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (26%), Health (23%), Education (16%).

Who are Adams RBG Empowerment Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Education Rights Counsel ($152k), Nebraska Wesleyan University ($124k), Nebraska Journalism Trust ($60k).

Does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Adams RBG Empowerment Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation.

Where is Adams RBG Empowerment Fund based?

Adams RBG Empowerment Fund is based in NE.

Foundation Dossiers

Nebraska · Private foundation

Adams RBG Empowerment Fund

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.

$229k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 31%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 16; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $4.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Adams RBG Empowerment Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$211k	20%
FY2024	13	$205k	31%
FY2023	14	$194k	43%
FY2022	16	$208k	75%
FY2021	5	$10k	80%
FY2020	1	$3k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$229kHealth$203kEducation$143kArts & Culture$116kPhilanthropy$61kCivil Rights$54kPublic Benefit$53kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Education Rights Counsel	$152,011	3	6%
Nebraska Wesleyan University	$123,824	5	0%
Nebraska Journalism Trust	$60,000	4	0%
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table	$52,625	3	1%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$45,000	2	0%
Rewire News Group	$35,000	3	1%
History Nebraska Foundation	$31,500	2	21%
Nebraska Legal Action Education Fund	$27,500	2	5%
The Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund	$20,000	2	4%
Trust Women Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Adams RBG Empowerment Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Education Rights Counsel	$152,011	3	6%
Nebraska Wesleyan University	$123,824	5	0%
Nebraska Journalism Trust	$60,000	4	0%
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table	$52,625	3	1%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$45,000	2	0%
Rewire News Group	$35,000	3	1%
History Nebraska Foundation	$31,500	2	21%
Nebraska Legal Action Education Fund	$27,500	2	5%
The Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund	$20,000	2	4%
Trust Women Foundation Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Outlinc Inc Outnebraska	$12,500	1	4%
University of Nebraska Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Repro TLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Pickleball Lincoln Inc	$9,000	1	7%
Foster Care Closet	$4,700	2	0%
National Women's Law Center	$3,000	1	0%
The Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary	$2,500	1	n/a
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust Inc	$2,000	3	0%
Disability Rights Nebraska	$1,000	1	0%
Sheltering Tree Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Lux Center for the Arts	$1,000	1	0%
Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum	$610	1	2%
Willie S Underwear Project	$561	2	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Adams RBG Empowerment Fund supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Adams RBG Empowerment Fund

How much does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund give?: Adams RBG Empowerment Fund reported 16 grants totaling $228,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (26%), Health (23%), Education (16%).
Who are Adams RBG Empowerment Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Education Rights Counsel ($152k), Nebraska Wesleyan University ($124k), Nebraska Journalism Trust ($60k).
Does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Adams RBG Empowerment Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Adams RBG Empowerment Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation.
Where is Adams RBG Empowerment Fund based?: Adams RBG Empowerment Fund is based in NE.