Nebraska · Private foundation
Cl Werner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Cl Werner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 79 | $3.1M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $3.1M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $2.1M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.3M | 78% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $129k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $2.1M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $4.1M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.5M | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $7,016,335 | 4 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha Inc | $2,034,088 | 5 | 18% |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $2,000,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Mental Health Innovation Foundation | $1,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries | $520,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Americans for Prosperity Foundation | $507,065 | 1 | 3% |
| Youth Emergency Services Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Retrieving Freedom Inc | $320,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Pope John Paul II Academy | $302,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Horatio Alger Assn of Distinguished Americans Inc | $300,645 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cl Werner 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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cl Werner Foundation
- How much does Cl Werner Foundation give?
- Cl Werner Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $3,149,430 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cl Werner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (20%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Cl Werner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($7.0M), Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha Inc ($2.0M), Omaha Zoo Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does Cl Werner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cl Werner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cl Werner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Cl Werner Foundation based?
- Cl Werner Foundation is based in NE.
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