Nebraska · Private foundation
Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $780k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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 | 22 | $730k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $716k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $760k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $785k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $664k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $664k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $645k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $648k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 | $875,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Advocacy Network | $450,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $333,829 | 5 | 6% |
| Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation | $326,251 | 4 | 7% |
| Kearney Family YMCA | $310,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Buffalo County Historical Society | $295,000 | 6 | 38% |
| Kearney Public Schools Foundation | $272,827 | 4 | 11% |
| Prince of Peace Catholic Church | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kearney Works Inc | $110,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kearney Jubilee Center | $100,000 | 2 | 13% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · Arram Family Foundation · Tye Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Myron Scott Trust
How this is measured
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About Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust
- How much does Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust give?
- Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust reported 25 grants totaling $780,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($875k), Family Advocacy Network ($450k), Crossroads Center Inc ($334k).
- Does Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kearney Area Community Foundation, Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust based?
- Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust is based in NE.
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