Nebraska · Private foundation
Bettenhausen Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $229k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2026
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $72,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $908k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 26% of the organizations Bettenhausen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 27 | $150k | 7% |
| FY2025 | 47 | $124k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $116k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $127k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $69k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $76k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $62k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $90k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025 | $83,500 | 9 | 2% |
| City Impact | $52,700 | 9 | 1% |
| People's City Mission | $31,300 | 10 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Center Inc | $26,100 | 6 | 1% |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $17,100 | 10 | 0% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $16,010 | 7 | 1% |
| Hope Venture | $13,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Omaha Youth for Christ | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Garden Fellowship Inc | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Center for People in Need | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($543k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bettenhausen Family 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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Rogers Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Abel Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Spreetail Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Acklie Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Bettenhausen Family Foundation
- How much does Bettenhausen Family Foundation give?
- Bettenhausen Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $229,030 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Bettenhausen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Religion (23%), Education (13%).
- Who are Bettenhausen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025 ($84k), City Impact ($53k), People's City Mission ($31k).
- Does Bettenhausen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bettenhausen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bettenhausen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Assurity Life Foundation, Cooper Foundation.
- Where is Bettenhausen Family Foundation based?
- Bettenhausen Family Foundation is based in NE.
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