Nebraska · Private foundation
Ja Woollam 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.
- $238k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $215,376
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Ja Woollam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% 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 | 4 | $233k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $188k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $90k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $114k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $68k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $2.6M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $276k | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St James Township | $2,250,270 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $737,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Southeast Community College Educational Foundation | $158,400 | 7 | 1% |
| Headwaters Land Conservancy | $116,300 | 4 | 6% |
| Pretty Lake Vacation Camp Inc | $102,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nebraska Trails Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 20% |
| The Nebraska Land Trust Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Wachiska Audubon Society Inc | $35,840 | 1 | 18% |
| Land Conservancy of West Michigan | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ja Woollam Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · The Holland Foundation · Land Trust Alliance Inc · The Lozier Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
How this is measured
About Ja Woollam Foundation
- How much does Ja Woollam Foundation give?
- Ja Woollam Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $238,376 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ja Woollam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Education (18%).
- Who are Ja Woollam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St James Township ($2.3M), University of Nebraska Foundation ($738k), Southeast Community College Educational Foundation ($158k).
- Does Ja Woollam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ja Woollam 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 Ja Woollam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooper Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Nebraska Community Foundation.
- Where is Ja Woollam Foundation based?
- Ja Woollam Foundation is based in NE.
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