· Private foundation
D F Dillon 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 $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| DOANE COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| PIUS X FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $475,000 |
| REGIS UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| LINCOLN CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $215,000 |
| NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL | $176,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $175,000 |
| BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY | $175,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $965k) 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 +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
142 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +70%
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +5%
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LCLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +73%
- NPNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -11%
- CCCULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLNone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
Lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.'s (lfs) mission is to express god's love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family and community life. our vision is saftey, hope and…
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
How this is measured
100 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. 100 of the 200 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTERPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AGNES ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tabitha Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTMONT TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Abel Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Lozier Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization D F Dillon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D F Dillon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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