· Private foundation
Marjorie Leu Skala Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA- LINCOLN | $13,500 |
| CHADRON STATE COLLEGE | $13,500 |
| WESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA- KEARNEY | $6,250 |
| WAYNE STATE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Hastings College | $4,500 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - OMAHA | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| BLACK HILLS STATE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +24%
- DUDOANE UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +1%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MSMS SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAone grant, 2024 · $2k
- RUROCKHURST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +16%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 60 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.
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOANE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · James M Cox Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Leland Trust CO Carol Haynes · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · Educationquest Foundation Inc · The Pete Henry Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marjorie Leu Skala Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie Leu Skala Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The National Federation of the Blind: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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