Nebraska · Private foundation
Gifford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $87k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $949k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Gifford Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516 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 | 15 | $72k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $65k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $62k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $62k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $40k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joslyn Art Museum | $128,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fontenelle Forest | $74,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $64,365 | 7 | 0% |
| The Willa Cather Foundation | $41,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Washington Print Foundation | $14,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Artists in Residence Inc | $12,400 | 5 | 1% |
| The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Quahog Bay Conservation | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth | $3,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Omega Horse Rescue and Rehabilitation Center Inc | $3,700 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gifford Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lauritzen Foundation · Paul and Oscar Giger Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Gifford Foundation Inc
- How much does Gifford Foundation Inc give?
- Gifford Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Gifford Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Environment (27%), Health (3%).
- Who are Gifford Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Joslyn Art Museum ($128k), Fontenelle Forest ($74k), Museum of Nebraska Art ($64k).
- Does Gifford Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gifford Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gifford Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Gifford Foundation Inc based?
- Gifford Foundation Inc is based in NE.
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