Nebraska · Community foundation
Oregon Trail Community Foundation
Community betterment
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $716k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $96,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Oregon Trail Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $692k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $427k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $383k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $451k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $185k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $193k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $676k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $1.1M | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Recreation & Sports$907kEducation$686kHealth$527kAnimals$407kYouth Development$374kArts & Culture$374kCommunity Improvement$300kEnvironment$202kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WY
CA
CO
NE
MO
KS
TN
OK
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Nebraska Arts Center | $823,867 | 2 | 3% |
| Riverside Zoological Foundation | $331,915 | 6 | 10% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $285,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Regional West Foundation | $249,162 | 7 | 10% |
| Friends of the Midwest Theater | $245,533 | 6 | 13% |
| Platte River Basin Environments In | $163,188 | 4 | 10% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $154,752 | 8 | 0% |
| Regional West Health Services | $147,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Nebraska Community College Foundation | $113,105 | 8 | 5% |
| Cooperative Ministries Council | $99,721 | 5 | 22% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Nebraska Arts Center | $823,867 | 2 | 3% |
| Riverside Zoological Foundation | $331,915 | 6 | 10% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $285,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Regional West Foundation | $249,162 | 7 | 10% |
| Friends of the Midwest Theater | $245,533 | 6 | 13% |
| Platte River Basin Environments In | $163,188 | 4 | 10% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $154,752 | 8 | 0% |
| Regional West Health Services | $147,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Nebraska Community College Foundation | $113,105 | 8 | 5% |
| Cooperative Ministries Council | $99,721 | 5 | 22% |
| Northfield Haven Inc | $86,826 | 2 | n/a |
| Cirrus House Inc | $85,924 | 4 | 3% |
| Scottsbluff Public Schools | $80,498 | 3 | n/a |
| First United Methodist Church | $75,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Northfield Haven | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Scottsbluff Public Schools Foundation Inc | $74,613 | 4 | 12% |
| Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation | $58,944 | 3 | 1% |
| 11 13 Ministries | $56,900 | 3 | 35% |
| Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska | $54,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Bayard Public Schools | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voluntary Action Center | $47,919 | 1 | 43% |
| Legacy of the Plains Museum Inc | $47,135 | 3 | 2% |
| Creative Sites LLC | $46,139 | 1 | n/a |
| 23 Club Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 62% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Scottsbluff | $38,587 | 6 | 0% |
| Brent Eley Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Terry & Hazeldean Carpenter Intl Center | $32,849 | 2 | 4% |
| Casa of Scotts Bluff County | $28,050 | 2 | 16% |
| United Way of Western Nebraska | $27,590 | 3 | 2% |
| Chadron Community Hospital Corporation | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Festival of Hope | $24,306 | 2 | 5% |
| Nebraska Game and Parks Commission | $22,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Berean Fundamental Church of Mitchell Nebraska | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adventure West Council Boy Scouts of America | $17,291 | 2 | 0% |
| Horizon To Horizon | $16,500 | 1 | 4% |
| The Doves Program | $15,190 | 1 | 2% |
| Teammates Mentoring Program of Scotts Bluff County | $15,150 | 2 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Potters Wheel Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Kids First Preschool | $12,890 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska 4-H Foundation | $12,722 | 1 | 2% |
| Post Playhouse | $11,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity International Scotts Bluff County | $11,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Northfield Elementary Booster Club | $10,020 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Scottsbluff | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morrill Public Schools | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scratch My Belly Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Coalition for the Homeless | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Gering | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Agnes Catholic Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Called to Compete Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ive Got a Name | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Weston County School District 1 State of Wy Edctn Endwmnt Fndtn | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Education and Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Options Pregnancy Center | $8,574 | 1 | 5% |
| Gering Lincoln Elementary Booster Club Inc | $7,632 | 1 | n/a |
| Minatare Public Schools Foundation | $7,050 | 1 | n/a |
| North Platte Natural Resource | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oregon Trail Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 39.
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 Fliesbach Family FoundationNE26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Fliesbach Family Foundation · United Way of Western Nebraska · Reardon - Mohr Foundation · Quivey-Bay State Foundation · Cw Yount Foundation Inc · Lockwood Foundation · G a Fliesbach Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc
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.
About Oregon Trail Community Foundation
- How much does Oregon Trail Community Foundation give?
- Oregon Trail Community Foundation reported 26 itemized grants totaling $716,051, out of $1,419,629 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Oregon Trail Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (20%), Education (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are Oregon Trail Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: West Nebraska Arts Center ($824k), Riverside Zoological Foundation ($332k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($286k).
- Does Oregon Trail Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Trail Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Fliesbach Family Foundation, United Way of Western Nebraska, Reardon - Mohr Foundation.
- Where is Oregon Trail Community Foundation based?
- Oregon Trail Community Foundation is based in NE.
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