· Private foundation
Bluestem Prairie Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Omaha Douglas Public Building Commi | $83,340 |
| Ollie Webb Center | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $10,000 |
| Film Streams | $5,000 |
| Foodbank For The Heartland | $5,000 |
| Omaha Public Library | $5,000 |
| Learning for All | $4,000 |
| Take Flight Farms | $3,000 |
| Joslyn Castle Trust | $3,000 |
| Nebraska Appleseed | $2,500 |
| Lauritzen Gardens | $2,000 |
| ACLU Foundation | $2,000 |
| Durham Museum | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Omaha Park Foundation | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OWOLLIE WEBB CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +9%
- JCJOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +99%
- LFLEARNING FOR ALL7× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
- AACLUone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NHNE High School Track Scholarshipone grant, 2019 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
The omaha community playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, community involvement, and arts education. we are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through…
The omaha zoological society's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.
The luminarium opened in april 2023 with more than 125 interactive exhibits and a kaleidoscope of engaging programs focused on science, art, and human perception. the luminarium is an innovative community space and learning environment…
The mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to enrich the community through presentation of the highest quality arts and entertainment experiences; education and community engagement programs; and stewardship of three world-class venues - the…
The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OLLIE WEBB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF OMAHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
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 Sherwood Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Giving 3 Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · The Hawks Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bluestem Prairie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluestem Prairie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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