· Private foundation
Oldfather 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEVATING CONNECTIONS | $18,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE | $15,000 |
| KEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| KEARNEY BUFFALO COUNTY CASA | $7,000 |
| KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| NE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDAT | $3,000 |
| BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY PTR | $3,000 |
| KEARNEY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA | $2,500 |
| HELPCARE CLINIC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY NEBRASA EXTENSION BUFFAL | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LLIGHTHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +120%
- ECElevating Connections5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +130%
- KCKEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CNCENTRAL NEBRASKA VETERANS MEMORIALone grant, 2019 · $1k
- BCBUFFALO COUNTY GOODFELLOWS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $750 · revenue +40%
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.
To provide the kearney family ymca with a stable financial base to carry out it's mission today, while also allowing for growth in the future.
The Kearney Enrichment Council operates programs focusing on youth enrichment, senior adults, downtown revitalization, and emergency support. In KECs Spark Program, over 40 youth, participated in culinary art, technology and engineering…
Local area chamber of commerce
Cklecc works to improve and sustain the availability, accessibility, capacity, and quality of early childhood services for children and families in cheyenne, kiowa, and lincoln counties of colorado.
The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.
The kearney area children's museum inspires play, exploration, & discovery through interactive experiences.
The united way of the kearney area's primary mission is to increase the overall quality of life for those in the region.
Kearney Jubilee Center is a non profit, ecumenical, community-based organization aimed at providing the most basic of human needs while advocating for social justice. We strive to maintain client dignity while offering supportive services…
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.
This organization provides services to kearney area individuals in need.
For nearly 50 years, kentucky youth advocates (kya) has worked to improve child well-being, public policies, and systems that influence the lives of children, families, and communities. kya is the only multi-issue, statewide child advocacy…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Elevating Connections ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWOCOR PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY BUFFALO COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds HELPCARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO COUNTY GOODFELLOWS 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Kearney Area Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Oldfather Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oldfather Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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