Nebraska · Private foundation
Backer Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $360k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 41
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Backer Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 42 | $352k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $281k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $291k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $311k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $240k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Central High School Foundation | $207,103 | 6 | 2% |
| West Hills Presbyterian Church | $136,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Chi Health Foundation | $135,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Special Hope Network | $75,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Luis Palau Association | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Ascent Community Church-Longmont Co | $63,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $54,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Clarita Valley Education Foundation | $35,750 | 6 | 10% |
| Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Backer Family Charitable Trust 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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Walter Scott Family Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · The Rebensdorf Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Backer Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Backer Family Charitable Trust give?
- Backer Family Charitable Trust reported 45 grants totaling $359,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Backer Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Education (22%), Health (14%).
- Who are Backer Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Central High School Foundation ($207k), West Hills Presbyterian Church ($136k), Chi Health Foundation ($135k).
- Does Backer Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Backer Family Charitable Trust 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 Backer Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation.
- Where is Backer Family Charitable Trust based?
- Backer Family Charitable Trust is based in NE.
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