How much does Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation give?

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation reported 72 itemized grants totaling $13,932,931, out of $14,407,231 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Religion (11%), Education (10%).

Who are Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($2.8M), Beth El Synagogue ($2.5M), Friedel Jewish Academy ($2.5M).

Does Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.

Where is Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation based?

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation is based in NE.

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation

To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.

$14M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$9.5M

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Omaha Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 66 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$44MReligion$7.4MEducation$6.6MArts & Culture$1.6MInternational$1.2MHealth$923kAnimals$663kCivil Rights$484kOther$0

02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 72 grants below total $13,932,931, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,407,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $474,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $144k
$10k–50k34 grants · $642k
$50k–250k8 grants · $799k
$250k+7 grants · $12M

$12,660

Median grant

States reached

$145M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA	$9,498,442
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NEBRASKA	$811,826
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$482,700
FRIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY	$440,343
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE	$421,433
BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY	$401,500
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY	$291,200
TEMPLE ISRAEL	$194,684
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM	$144,000
FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION	$100,500
STREET KIDS INTERNATIONAL	$100,000
BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE	$83,320
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY	$70,800
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION	$55,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEMA AN ACHAI	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 93 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$19M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+14%

Still filing today

80%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +70%
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NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
9× · 2017–2025 · $554k · revenue +16%
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UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +50%

Funded once

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MAKOR CHAIM USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +36% · 37% of their budget
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AM YISRAEL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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Oak HillsBikhor Cholim Cemetery Trust Perpetual Care c/o Union Bk & Tr Co-Trustee
one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +24%

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.

04Its field

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.

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation

To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.

Philanthropy

Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation

The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.

Human Services

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies Inc

The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…

Human Services

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York Inc

To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…

Philanthropy

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Sri Lanka Helping Hands. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 186 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

152/154

Grantees still filing

104/154

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$44,803,652Other$13,007,432Education$3,980,019Arts & Culture$1,063,130Health$783,182Animals$651,034International$619,575

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.

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE81.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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4get no government money at all

39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home