Nebraska · Private foundation
Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
- $76k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $71k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $77k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $23k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $26k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1d | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cedars Home for Children Foundation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $5,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough T1d | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cedars Home for Children Foundation | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $5,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Capital Humane Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lighthouse | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nebraska Peo Home | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 50 Mile March Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Els for Autism Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Open House Ministries | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Habitat for Humanity | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Vista Maria | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc 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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Pegler Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Abel Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Theresa Farnsworth Wittmann Charitable Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Bettenhausen Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $70,500, out of $76,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (22%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Breakthrough T1d ($70k), People's City Mission ($19k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($8k).
- Does Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Pegler Family Foundation.
- Where is Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Christensen Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NE.
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