Nebraska · Private foundation
Heartland Bank 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.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 35
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Heartland Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 26 | $98k | 85% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $73k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $69k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $55k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield County Frontier Fair Assoc | $37,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Jefferson Community Health Center Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Fairbury Civic Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Kearney Public Schools Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aurora Housing Development Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hampton Veterans Memorial | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hamilton Recreation Inc | $1,169 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
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: Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Heartland Bank Foundation
- How much does Heartland Bank Foundation give?
- Heartland Bank Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $109,167 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 35 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Heartland Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Health (18%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Heartland Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Garfield County Frontier Fair Assoc ($38k), Jefferson Community Health Center Inc ($38k), Fairbury Civic Foundation ($10k).
- Does Heartland Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Heartland Bank 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 Heartland Bank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wortman Family Charitable Trust, Land O'Lakes Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Heartland Bank Foundation based?
- Heartland Bank Foundation is based in NE.
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