How much does Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation give?

Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $137,751 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Arts & Culture (31%), Education (12%).

Who are Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Joslyn Art Museum ($324k), Omaha Conservatory of Music ($247k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($90k).

Does Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Harley and Beth Schrager 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 Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.

Where is Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation based?

Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation is based in NE.

Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation

Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Harley and Beth Schrager 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.

$138k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$711kArts & Culture$659kEducation$265kRecreation & Sports$189kHuman Services$93kAnimals$75kReligion$69kHealth$47kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $25k
$10k–50k7 grants · $113k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$188k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC	$25,000
BENSON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$25,000
GIRLS INC	$15,000
WESTSIDE FOUNDATION	$15,000
WESTSIDE FOUNDATION	$13,143
VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY	$10,000
OMAHA SPORTS COMMISSION	$10,000
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM	$9,315
TEMPLE ISRAEL	$7,293
FILM STREAMS	$5,000
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 31 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+6%

Still filing today

68%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JA
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
9× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +214%
OC
OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
9× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +29%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +70%

Funded once

US
UNITED STATES BASEBALL FEDERATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
OS
Oklahoma State University Foundation
one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -3%
K
KANEKO
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy

The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

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Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/49

Grantees still filing

30/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$761,985Arts & Culture$588,033Philanthropy$351,028Education$230,000Human Services$78,000Animals$75,167Recreation & Sports$73,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Giving 3 Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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