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Lori & David Scott Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services

$767k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$726k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$42M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Lori & David Scott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$698k10%
FY202410$437k40%
FY202313$418k38%
FY202210$309k40%
FY20217$182k71%
FY20205$393k20%
FY201911$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.0MHuman Services$717kHealth$592kRecreation & Sports$565kPhilanthropy$478kYouth Development$280kReligion$150kSocial Science$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$555,00020%
Quality Living Inc$545,00031%
Village Northwest Unlimited$505,00013%
Brownell-Talbot School$451,69071%
Northwestern College$296,00041%
Hastings College$150,00010%
Christ Community Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance$150,0001n/a
Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council$133,95560%
YMCA of Greater Omaha$120,00020%
Teammates Mentoring Program$110,00013%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Lori & David Scott Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$555,00020%
Quality Living Inc$545,00031%
Village Northwest Unlimited$505,00013%
Brownell-Talbot School$451,69071%
Northwestern College$296,00041%
Hastings College$150,00010%
Christ Community Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance$150,0001n/a
Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council$133,95560%
YMCA of Greater Omaha$120,00020%
Teammates Mentoring Program$110,00013%
Platte Institute for Economic Research Inc$100,00052%
The Salvation Army$71,5003n/a
Share Good$60,00034%
Metropolitan Community College Foundation$60,00040%
Nebraska Philanthropic Trust$55,00032%
The Durham Museum$47,50030%
The Jet Award Foundation & Trust$30,00027%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$30,00010%
Northstar Foundation$25,70011%
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum$25,00011%
Omaha Equestrian Foundation$25,00013%
Share Omaha$25,00013%
Partnership 4 Kids Inc$25,00011%
Omaha Zoo Foundation$25,00010%
Connected Roots Care Center$20,00020%
Yanney Heritage Park Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Boy Scouts of America$10,00010%
Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha$10,00010%
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc$10,0001n/a
City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc$10,00012%
American Heart Association Inc$7,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lori & David Scott Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $555,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQuality Living Inc: $545,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVillage Northwest Unlimited: $505,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBrownell-Talbot School: $451,690 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNorthwestern College: $296,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHastings College: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council: $133,955 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Omaha: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTeammates Mentoring Program: $110,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPlatte Institute for Economic Research Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetShare Good: $60,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNebraska Philanthropic Trust: $55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe Durham Museum: $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Jet Award Foundation & Trust: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthstar Foundation: $25,700 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStrategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOmaha Equestrian Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetShare Omaha: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPartnership 4 Kids Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOmaha Zoo Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnected Roots Care Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYanney Heritage Park Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Scholarship Fund of Omaha: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity of Omaha Police Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Suzanne & Walter Scot…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Lozier FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Hawks FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Leland J & Dorothy H …Richard Brooke Founda…Walter Scott Family F…Nebraska Community Fo…Adah K Millard Charit…
Suzanne & Walter Scott FoundationNE38.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Walter Scott Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Adah K Millard Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lori & David Scott Foundation

How much does Lori & David Scott Foundation give?
Lori & David Scott Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $726,430, out of $766,930 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Lori & David Scott Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (18%), Health (15%).
Who are Lori & David Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($555k), Quality Living Inc ($545k), Village Northwest Unlimited ($505k).
Does Lori & David Scott Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lori & David Scott Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
Where is Lori & David Scott Foundation based?
Lori & David Scott Foundation is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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