How much does Dolezal Family Foundation give?

Dolezal Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Dolezal Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are Dolezal Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Orchestra Association ($190k), First Presbyterian Church ($148k), Lux Center for the Arts ($120k).

Does Dolezal Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dolezal Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Dolezal Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Abel Foundation, Cooper Foundation.

Where is Dolezal Family Foundation based?

Dolezal Family Foundation is based in NE.

Foundation Dossiers

Nebraska · Private foundation

Dolezal Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$282k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 19
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 19%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.4M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Dolezal Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	19	$282k	37%
FY2024	16	$228k	19%
FY2023	15	$222k	27%
FY2022	15	$228k	20%
FY2021	10	$179k	40%
FY2020	12	$170k	42%
FY2019	12	$156k	50%
FY2018	8	$157k	75%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$661kHuman Services$284kYouth Development$280kReligion$148kCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$80kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0

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
Lincoln Orchestra Association	$190,000	6	3%
First Presbyterian Church	$148,345	8	n/a
Lux Center for the Arts	$120,000	5	7%
City Impact	$90,000	4	2%
Camp Sonshine	$80,000	2	5%
Lincoln Community Playhouse	$75,050	3	4%
Lincoln Arts Council	$61,500	5	3%
Mourning Hope	$55,000	3	3%
Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center	$50,350	4	1%
Lincoln Children's Museum	$50,000	4	1%

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All grantees of Dolezal Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Lincoln Orchestra Association	$190,000	6	3%
First Presbyterian Church	$148,345	8	n/a
Lux Center for the Arts	$120,000	5	7%
City Impact	$90,000	4	2%
Camp Sonshine	$80,000	2	5%
Lincoln Community Playhouse	$75,050	3	4%
Lincoln Arts Council	$61,500	5	3%
Mourning Hope	$55,000	3	3%
Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center	$50,350	4	1%
Lincoln Children's Museum	$50,000	4	1%
Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc	$47,500	5	2%
Educare of Lincoln Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Nebraska Cultural Endowment	$41,000	3	1%
YMCA of Lincoln	$40,000	5	0%
Fitting Futures	$39,250	2	10%
Cedars Youth Services Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Food Bank of Lincoln Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Bright Lights Inc	$30,000	3	3%
The Nebraska Communities Playhouse	$30,000	1	6%
Dimensions Educational Research Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Nebraska Children's Home Society Inc	$17,500	2	0%
Dreamweaver Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Malone Community Center	$15,000	1	0%
Visionary Youth	$12,500	2	3%
Youth Actors Academy of Lincoln Inc	$10,000	2	4%
Northeast Family Center	$10,000	1	1%
Belmont Community Center	$8,600	4	1%
The Madonna Foundation	$5,300	2	0%
Nebraska Shakespeare Festival Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Easter Seals Nebraska	$1,000	1	0%
Sewing for Babies Incorporated	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($384k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dolezal Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE53.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Pace Woods Foundation · Olsson Family Foundation · Hugo a and Thelma Aspegren Charitable Trust · Assurity Life Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dolezal Family Foundation

How much does Dolezal Family Foundation give?: Dolezal Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $282,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dolezal Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Human Services (16%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Dolezal Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Orchestra Association ($190k), First Presbyterian Church ($148k), Lux Center for the Arts ($120k).
Does Dolezal Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dolezal Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dolezal Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Abel Foundation, Cooper Foundation.
Where is Dolezal Family Foundation based?: Dolezal Family Foundation is based in NE.