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Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

$116M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$352k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$172,756
Organizations funded a year
8 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$556M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Omaha Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$352k38%
FY20238$476k13%
FY20228$496k25%
FY20218$406k50%
FY20208$793kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.4MYouth Development$268kCivil Rights$251kReligion$197kHealth$154kArts & Culture$115kHuman Services$50kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abide Network Inc$1,068,866511%
African American Empowerment Network In$358,52527%
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc$268,394520%
ACLU Nebraska Foundation Inc$251,31745%
African Culture Connection$104,000218%
Ablaze Ministries Inc D/B/A Ablaze House of Ministries$89,0834n/a
A Time to Heal Inc$79,368312%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation$75,00032%
All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church of Omaha Nebraska$58,0001n/a
Ablaze House of Prayer Inc$49,82029%
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All grantees of Omaha Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abide Network Inc$1,068,866511%
African American Empowerment Network In$358,52527%
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc$268,394520%
ACLU Nebraska Foundation Inc$251,31745%
African Culture Connection$104,000218%
Ablaze Ministries Inc D/B/A Ablaze House of Ministries$89,0834n/a
A Time to Heal Inc$79,368312%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation$75,00032%
All Holy Spirit Greek Orthodox Church of Omaha Nebraska$58,0001n/a
Ablaze House of Prayer Inc$49,82029%
A Mothers Love Inc$45,0001n/a
3 Sisters$25,0972n/a
Ace Mentor Program of America$12,5001n/a
Accelerated Schools of Overland Park Inc$12,00011%
Actionaid USA$10,00010%
The 402 - Omahas Finest Inc$6,0001n/a
Sweet Adelines International$5,3201n/a
Abc House Inc$5,09010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Omaha Community Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbide Network Inc: $1,068,866 over 5y, 11% of budgetAfrican American Empowerment Network In: $358,525 over 2y, 6.5% of budget100 Black Men of Omaha Inc: $268,394 over 5y, 20% of budgetACLU Nebraska Foundation Inc: $251,317 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetAfrican Culture Connection: $104,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetA Time to Heal Inc: $79,368 over 3y, 12% of budgetAbbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAblaze House of Prayer Inc: $49,820 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetAccelerated Schools of Overland Park Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetActionaid USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAbc House Inc: $5,090 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Omaha Community Foundation

How much does Omaha Community Foundation give?
Omaha Community Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $351,540, out of $116,042,228 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Omaha Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (57%), Youth Development (11%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Omaha Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Abide Network Inc ($1.1M), African American Empowerment Network In ($359k), 100 Black Men of Omaha Inc ($268k).
Does Omaha Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Omaha Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository.
Where is Omaha Community Foundation based?
Omaha Community Foundation is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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