Nebraska · Private foundation
Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust
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.
- $134k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust 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; $3k 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 | 17 | $134k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $170k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $185k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $170k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $166k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $162k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $160k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings College Foundation | $200,000 | 9 | 78% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $114,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $107,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc | $94,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $91,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation | $89,500 | 8 | n/a |
| James Wilson Institute for Natural Rights and the American Founding | $74,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Eps Essential Pregnancy Services Inc | $56,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Omaha Home for Boys | $47,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Siena Francis House | $44,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($285k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Oliver & Ferrol Barklage Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust give?
- Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $133,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (21%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hastings College Foundation ($200k), Nebraska Family Alliance Inc ($115k), Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($108k).
- Does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust 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 Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation.
- Where is Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust based?
- Helen a Pearson Charitable Trust is based in NE.
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