Nebraska · Private foundation
Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $47,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 102
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $770k 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 | 79 | $9.0M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $9.9M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 100 | $9.7M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $7.7M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $5.7M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $5.6M | 28% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $6.0M | 34% |
| FY2017 | 93 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $7,989,950 | 8 | 1% |
| Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation | $3,037,332 | 3 | 44% |
| Omaha Public Schools Foundation | $2,104,147 | 3 | 8% |
| Community Alliance Inc | $2,087,874 | 6 | 7% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $2,001,926 | 8 | 1% |
| Completely Kids | $1,260,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Nebraska Humane Society | $1,235,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Child Saving Institute Inc | $1,130,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc | $1,048,935 | 3 | 3% |
| Nebraska Youth Justice Initiative Dba Radius | $1,035,000 | 2 | 9% |
Show all 190 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 180 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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation give?
- Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $9,455,922 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 102 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Youth Development (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Nebraska Foundation ($8.0M), Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation ($3.0M), Omaha Public Schools Foundation ($2.1M).
- Does Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation based?
- Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation is based in NE.
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