· Private foundation
Joe Ricketts Nebraska Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Wyoming Foundation | $535,000 |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $200,000 |
| Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research | $75,000 |
| Hudson Institute Inc | $50,000 |
| Sublette County Historical Society dba Museum of the Mountain Man | $20,000 |
| Home Schooling for College Credit Inc | $15,000 |
| The Federalist Society | $10,000 |
| Church of Our Lady of Peace | $6,000 |
| Fur Trade Days Inc dba Museum of the Fur Trade | $2,000 |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $1,000 |
| Papillion Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| National Museum of Wildlife Art | $1,000 |
| Pinedale Fine Arts Council | $1,000 |
| Buffalo Bill Memorial Association | $1,000 |
| Wyoming Stock Growers Endowment Trust | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $556k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +26%
- WSWYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +34%
- HIHudson Institute Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- MIMahattan Instituteone grant, 2021 · $125k
- GYGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITIONone grant, 2023 · $62k · revenue -47%
- TATHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SUBLETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CONCORD MEDIATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bill Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PAPILLION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe Ricketts Nebraska Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe Ricketts Nebraska Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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