Nebraska · Public charity
Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation
To engage in the promotion and support of the retention and expansion of local businesses.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $192k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $45,302
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $93,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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 | 3 | $172k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $436k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $254k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $75k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 Chamber Economic Development Cor | $643,350 | 6 | 7% |
| Lincoln Airport Authority | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Chamber of Commerce | $126,833 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Development Resources | $91,666 | 3 | 4% |
| The Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools | $75,000 | 2 | 2% |
| City of Lincoln Nebraska | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
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: United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation with peer funders
About Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation
- How much does Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation give?
- Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $191,635, out of $219,390 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (81%), Arts & Culture (7%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Chamber Economic Development Cor ($643k), Lincoln Airport Authority ($250k), Lincoln Chamber of Commerce ($127k).
- Does Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation based?
- Greater Lincoln Chamber Foundation is based in NE.
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