Nebraska · Public charity
Dixon Family Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $480,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $51M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Dixon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% 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 | 19 | $645k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $491k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $578k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $563k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $561k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $443k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $1.0M | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk | $1,430,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands | $427,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Completely Kids | $397,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Omaha Botanical Center Inc | $315,000 | 9 | 3% |
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Sheltering Tree Inc | $220,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Band of Angels Corp | $200,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Omaha Performing Arts Society | $180,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Dixon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dixon Family Foundation
- How much does Dixon Family Foundation give?
- Dixon Family Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $1,140,000, out of $1,190,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dixon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (21%), Youth Development (17%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Dixon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk ($1.4M), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands ($428k), Completely Kids ($397k).
- Does Dixon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dixon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Dixon Family Foundation based?
- Dixon Family Foundation is based in NE.
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