Nebraska · Private foundation
Olsson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Olsson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 16 | $81k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $67k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $66k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $20k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $75k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $47k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $74k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $32,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Lighthouse | $31,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Tabitha Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bright Lights Inc | $25,400 | 8 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $22,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $100,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $32,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Lighthouse | $31,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Tabitha Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bright Lights Inc | $25,400 | 8 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $22,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| People's City Mission | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Lincoln Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Hopespoke | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools | $8,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for People in Need | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mourning Hope | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| City Impact | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Arts Council | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nebraska Trails Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Malone Community Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ive Got a Name | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| YMCA of Lincoln | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Literacy Council | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fitting Futures | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Visionary Youth | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lincoln Orchestra Association | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Plains Trails Network | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Willard Community Center | $1,840 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Olsson 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: Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Assurity Life Foundation · Abel Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · Dolezal Family Foundation · Hugo a and Thelma Aspegren Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Olsson Family Foundation
- How much does Olsson Family Foundation give?
- Olsson Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $80,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Olsson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Youth Development (17%), Animals (16%).
- Who are Olsson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Children's Zoo ($100k), Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach ($33k), Lighthouse ($32k).
- Does Olsson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Olsson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Olsson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooper Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Assurity Life Foundation.
- Where is Olsson Family Foundation based?
- Olsson Family Foundation is based in NE.
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