Nebraska · Community foundation
Kearney Area Community Foundation
Provide support for various programs and charitable activities for communities in the area of buffalo county, nebraska
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $151,004
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Kearney Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $2.5M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $723k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $894k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.5M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $458k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $697k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $319k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Kearney | $1,855,144 | 7 | n/a |
| Buffalo County Community Health Partners Inc | $669,378 | 5 | 56% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $482,541 | 5 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $421,470 | 7 | n/a |
| Kearney Family YMCA | $370,798 | 5 | 3% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $314,766 | 4 | 0% |
| Faith Christian School Foundation | $275,583 | 3 | 43% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $162,559 | 3 | 3% |
| Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation | $155,081 | 1 | 2% |
| Kids and Dreams Foundation Inc | $151,004 | 1 | 45% |
Show all 108 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kearney Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 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: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Arram Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Jerry & Edith Marlatt Family Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Nac Development Corporation
How this is measured
About Kearney Area Community Foundation
- How much does Kearney Area Community Foundation give?
- Kearney Area Community Foundation reported 79 itemized grants totaling $2,659,612, out of $4,037,821 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kearney Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (21%), Education (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are Kearney Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Kearney ($1.9M), Buffalo County Community Health Partners Inc ($669k), Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ($483k).
- Does Kearney Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kearney Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust, Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc, Arram Family Foundation.
- Where is Kearney Area Community Foundation based?
- Kearney Area Community Foundation is based in NE.
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