· Private foundation
Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $125,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OREL ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBR FDN | $16,000 |
| OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| KANEKO | $10,000 |
| SIENNA FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| NORTH STAR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CHILD SAVING INST | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OMAHA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| VITA NOVA MATERNITY COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +82%
- KKANEKO4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +45%
- BCBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RFREVIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.
The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 104 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESPECT2 ↗
- Who funds Bellevue University ↗
- Who funds KICKS FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds OREL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GESHER DISABILITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIVING INC ↗
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 · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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