Nebraska · Private foundation
Debby Durham Family 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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $169,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Debby Durham Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 66 | $2.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $2.0M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $1.7M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $1.7M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $1.9M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $1.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $970,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mainstreet of Fremont Inc | $677,500 | 4 | 92% |
| Friends of Keene Memorial Library | $669,342 | 9 | 54% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $565,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Durham Museum | $488,920 | 9 | 2% |
| Weatherford Christian School | $465,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Lawrence Schools Foundation | $450,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Furever Home Inc | $414,000 | 4 | 62% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $410,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Bridge Inc | $410,000 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Debby Durham Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation
How this is measured
About Debby Durham Family Foundation
- How much does Debby Durham Family Foundation give?
- Debby Durham Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $2,002,020 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Debby Durham Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (13%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Debby Durham Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($970k), Mainstreet of Fremont Inc ($678k), Friends of Keene Memorial Library ($669k).
- Does Debby Durham Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Debby Durham Family Foundation 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 Debby Durham Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Fremont Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Debby Durham Family Foundation based?
- Debby Durham Family Foundation is based in NE.
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