Nebraska · Private foundation
Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 33
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 27 | $75k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $66k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $61k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $65k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $52k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $42k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $37,400 | 3 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Haxtun Hospital District Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uchealth Northern Colorado Foundation | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sedgwick County Organized Recreation Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Eastern Wyoming College Foundation | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Lied Lied Center for Performing Arts- Nebraska | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Estes Park Medical Center Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Weld Food Bank | $7,503 | 5 | 0% |
| Hippodrome Arts Centre | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation 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: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · United Way of Larimer County · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation
- How much does Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation give?
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $86,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($37k), American Cancer Society Inc ($24k), Haxtun Hospital District Foundation ($15k).
- Does Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, Nebraska Community Foundation.
- Where is Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation based?
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundation is based in NE.
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