· Public charity
Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation
To convene business and community leaders committed to nebraska's prosperity through advancements and innovations in education, workforce development, and civic projects born from effective private, public, and philanthropic collaborations.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKA STATE FAIR BOARD | $300,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2.6M · revenue -9%
- MCMetropolitan Community College2× · 2018–2019 · $1.3M
- NSNEBRASKA STATE FAIR BOARD3× · 2019–2021 · $500k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CACHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +272%
- DCDOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 0066 (WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS)one grant, 2019 · $10k
- NSNEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +193%
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.
6 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. 6 of the 14 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.
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: I Car Education Foundation · American Association of Community Colleges
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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