Nebraska · Private foundation
Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $828k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $240,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 63 | $815k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $665k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $667k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $539k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $156k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $98k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $56k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $50k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $1,077,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $310,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Beatrice Humane Society Inc | $100,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Wildlife Rescue Team Inc | $60,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Gage County Historical Society | $58,500 | 9 | 7% |
| Prairie Plains Resource Inst | $56,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Beatrice Public Library Foundation Inc | $49,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Hanna Pinneo | $47,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Raptor Conservation Alliance Inc | $46,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Capital Humane Society | $41,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Spreetail Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · The Sherwood Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation with peer funders
About Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation
- How much does Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation give?
- Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $827,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (21%), Animals (18%).
- Who are Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($1.1M), Joslyn Art Museum ($310k), Beatrice Humane Society Inc ($101k).
- Does Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Spreetail Foundation, Cooper Foundation.
- Where is Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation based?
- Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation is based in NE.
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