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Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
41%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,278
Organizations funded a year
12 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$124k21%
FY202422$93k41%
FY202324$117k54%
FY202212$110k33%
FY202113$62k23%
FY202012$60k25%
FY201913$88k46%
FY201818$76kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$467kHealth$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kArts & Culture$24kCommunity Improvement$19kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$15kMembership Benefit$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$52,7948n/a
Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out$50,000147%
Revitalization Association of Weeping Water$18,50026%
Midland University$17,50040%
Faith Missionary Church$15,2556n/a
Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department$15,0001n/a
Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation$13,000210%
York University$12,50060%
Plattsmouth Junior Youth Association$10,0002n/a
Morningside University$8,50030%
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All grantees of Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$52,7948n/a
Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out$50,000147%
Revitalization Association of Weeping Water$18,50026%
Midland University$17,50040%
Faith Missionary Church$15,2556n/a
Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department$15,0001n/a
Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation$13,000210%
York University$12,50060%
Plattsmouth Junior Youth Association$10,0002n/a
Morningside University$8,50030%
The Lofte Association Inc$5,00011%
Community Memorial Hospital Foundation$4,7301n/a
Hastings College$3,00020%
The Nebraska Medical Center$3,00020%
Friends of Cass County Casa Program$2,25012%
Special Olympics Nebraska Inc$2,20010%
Doane University$1,00010%
Bellevue University$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($495k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBe the Light Speak Up Speak Out: $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetRevitalization Association of Weeping Water: $18,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetMidland University: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBess Streeter Aldrich Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYork University: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMorningside University: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lofte Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHastings College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cass County Casa Program: $2,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nebraska Inc: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDoane University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 13.

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.

Educationquest Foundation IncNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Educationquest Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · James M Cox Foundation · Midlands Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002

How much does Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 give?
Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 reported 28 grants totaling $123,703 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Health (8%), Public Safety & Disaster (4%).
Who are Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ($53k), Be the Light Speak Up Speak Out ($50k), Revitalization Association of Weeping Water ($19k).
Does Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Educationquest Foundation Inc, Cooper Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 based?
Berneice M Hopper Private Foundation 9285002 is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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