Nebraska · Public charity
Amy L Scott Family Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services
- $765k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $699k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $119,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Amy L Scott Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $579k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $651k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $975k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $486k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $833k | 77% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $710k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation | $837,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Donorschooseorg | $535,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Omaha Botanical Center Inc | $338,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Fort Calhoun Community School Foundation | $330,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fontenelle Forest | $210,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Durham Museum | $193,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ponca Hills Volunteer Fire Dept | $183,777 | 7 | 83% |
| Lake Cunningham Development Trust | $176,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Northstar Foundation | $170,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 66 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Amy L Scott Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation
How this is measured
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About Amy L Scott Family Foundation
- How much does Amy L Scott Family Foundation give?
- Amy L Scott Family Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $698,700, out of $764,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Amy L Scott Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (21%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Amy L Scott Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation ($838k), Donorschooseorg ($535k), Omaha Botanical Center Inc ($339k).
- Does Amy L Scott Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Amy L Scott Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.
- Where is Amy L Scott Family Foundation based?
- Amy L Scott Family Foundation is based in NE.
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