· Private foundation
Mutual of Omaha Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Creighton University | $250,000 |
| Omaha Performing Arts | $250,000 |
| Latino Center of the Midlands | $250,000 |
| Lauritzen Gardens Omaha's Botanical Center | $250,000 |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $250,000 |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $150,000 |
| The American Red Cross | $150,000 |
| Employee Financial Assistance Fund | $127,476 |
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | $121,241 |
| Project Houseworks | $100,000 |
| The Collective for Hope (formerly Grief's Journey) | $100,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $100,000 |
| One Tree Planted | $100,000 |
| The Salvation Army - Omaha | $100,000 |
| Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc | $75,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
129 repeat relationships: 111 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +12%
- CUCreighton University4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25%
- CSCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $660k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MHMENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -59%
- CUCreighton Universityone grant, 2020 · $276k
- KCKids Can Community Centerone grant, 2020 · $265k
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
End hunger together.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
How this is measured
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 267 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH INNOVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD COC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL BLUFFS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds CHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
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 · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mutual of Omaha Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mutual of Omaha Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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