Nebraska · Private foundation
American Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $71k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations American Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $71k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $73k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $75k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $104k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $80k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $74k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $64k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $68k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $52,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Siena Francis House | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dreamweaver Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Stephen Center Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Center for Kids Inc | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Child Saving Institute Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| First Responders Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sheltering Tree Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Briggs & Barrett Project | $12,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Kim Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands
How this is measured
About American Charitable Foundation
- How much does American Charitable Foundation give?
- American Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $70,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does American Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are American Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Food Bank for the Heartland ($52k), Siena Francis House ($48k), Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($45k).
- Does American Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does American Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Nebraska Community Foundation.
- Where is American Charitable Foundation based?
- American Charitable Foundation is based in NE.
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