Nebraska · Private foundation
Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $578k
- Granted FY2023
- 27
- Grants FY2023
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $578k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $270,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 3
- Total assets, FY2023
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 26 | $486k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $381k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $396k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $355k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $359k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Christian Schools Inc | $670,000 | 7 | 9% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $262,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $176,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hastings College Foundation | $150,000 | 6 | 65% |
| Aurora Housing Development Corp | $125,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Hamilton County Historical Society | $124,270 | 4 | 18% |
| Prairie Plains Resource Inst | $72,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Edgerton Education Foundation | $52,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Hamilton Recreation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Masonic-Eastern Star Home for Children Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Nebraska Community Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Heuermann Family Charitable Trust · Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Dr James M Woodard and Mabel Woodard Trust
How this is measured
Compare Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation with peer funders
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About Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation
- How much does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation give?
- Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $578,250 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Philanthropy (27%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nebraska Christian Schools Inc ($670k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($263k), Nebraska Wesleyan University ($176k).
- Does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nebraska Community Foundation, Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation based?
- Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation is based in NE.
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