Nebraska · Private foundation
Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $582k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 21 | $68k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $67k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $176k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $144k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $126k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $105k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $85k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $63k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $58,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Valley Days Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Fremont Area United Way | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Madonna School and Community Based Services | $24,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Polish Home Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Siena Francis House | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Newman Catholic Student Center of Iowa City Iowa | $20,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Polish Heritage Center Inc | $19,000 | 7 | 15% |
Show all 32 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $58,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Valley Days Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Fremont Area United Way | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Madonna School and Community Based Services | $24,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Polish Home Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Siena Francis House | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Newman Catholic Student Center of Iowa City Iowa | $20,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Polish Heritage Center Inc | $19,000 | 7 | 15% |
| The Omaha Home for Boys | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart School | $12,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Augustine Indian Mission | $11,500 | 5 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $11,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $9,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Angels Among US | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mater Filius of Nebraska Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Eps Essential Pregnancy Services Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Little Sisters of The Poor | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vincentian Congregation Inc | $4,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Benedictine College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Priests for Life | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Wild Turkey Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heartland Hope Mission | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of Greater Omaha | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Barrientos Scholarship Foundation | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Natl Sons of Amvets | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Ludwig Von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics Inc | $60 | 1 | 0% |
| March for Life Action | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Movember Foundation | $20 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($439k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust reported 21 grants totaling $67,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Human Services (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ($59k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($43k), Valley Days Foundation ($25k).
- Does Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bnsf Railway Foundation, CKBN Charitable Foundation, Mutual of Omaha Foundation.
- Where is Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Leonard and Esther Nowak Charitable Foundation Trust is based in NE.
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