Nebraska · Private foundation
Moeller Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $196k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Moeller Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $196k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $180k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $178k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $167k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $152k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $143k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $133k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $130k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fresh Start Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Lincoln Children's Museum | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| City Impact | $70,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Center for People in Need | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $63,368 | 3 | 1% |
| The Tabitha Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tabitha Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fresh Start Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Lincoln Children's Museum | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| City Impact | $70,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Center for People in Need | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $63,368 | 3 | 1% |
| The Tabitha Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Tabitha Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Omaha Youth for Christ | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milkworks Inc | $28,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Willard Community Center | $26,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Heartland Cancer Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Malone Community Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fitting Futures | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Educare of Lincoln Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Down Syndrome Association for Families | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Fort | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angels Among US | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clinic With a Heart Inc | $5,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Lincoln Bike Kitchen | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bryan Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Life Community Development | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Bright Lights Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Moeller Charitable 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.
Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Olsson Family Foundation · The Hampton Family Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · Assurity Life Foundation
How this is measured
About Moeller Charitable Trust
- How much does Moeller Charitable Trust give?
- Moeller Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $196,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Moeller Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (17%), Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Moeller Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Bank of Lincoln Inc ($225k), Fresh Start Inc ($110k), Lincoln Children's Museum ($90k).
- Does Moeller Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Moeller Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Moeller Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Abel Foundation, D F Dillon Foundation.
- Where is Moeller Charitable Trust based?
- Moeller Charitable Trust is based in NE.
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