Nebraska · Private foundation
Buffett Early Childhood Fund
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.
- $33M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,995,063
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Buffett Early Childhood Fund 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; $3.0M 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 | 39 | $32M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $30M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $27M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $32M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $36M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $31M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $46M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $34M | 33% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative | $41,326,908 | 7 | 59% |
| Start Early | $37,654,463 | 9 | 9% |
| Nebraska Children & Families Foundation | $32,942,093 | 9 | 13% |
| Educare of Omaha Inc | $31,686,409 | 9 | 41% |
| Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance | $24,159,144 | 8 | 57% |
| Educare of Lincoln Inc | $22,615,416 | 9 | 86% |
| Educare DC | $10,397,827 | 9 | 28% |
| Early Childhood Services | $8,236,699 | 2 | 47% |
| Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US | $8,003,459 | 9 | 3% |
| Omaha Early Learning Centers Inc | $5,759,626 | 3 | 38% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Buffett Early Childhood Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 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: The Sherwood Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Pritzker Family Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Weitz Family Foundation · Start Early · The Holland Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation
How this is measured
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About Buffett Early Childhood Fund
- How much does Buffett Early Childhood Fund give?
- Buffett Early Childhood Fund reported 42 grants totaling $33,363,929 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Buffett Early Childhood Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Buffett Early Childhood Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative ($41M), Start Early ($38M), Nebraska Children & Families Foundation ($33M).
- Does Buffett Early Childhood Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Buffett Early Childhood Fund 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 Buffett Early Childhood Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Buffett Early Childhood Fund based?
- Buffett Early Childhood Fund is based in NE.
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