How much does Parker Family Foundation give?

Parker Family Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,164,500, out of $1,188,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Parker Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (17%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Parker Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Omaha Children's Trust ($1.0M), Creighton University ($575k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($450k).

Does Parker Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Parker Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.

Where is Parker Family Foundation based?

Parker Family Foundation is based in NE.

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Nebraska · Public charity

Parker Family Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education and social services

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 25
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $32,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 28; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $53M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Parker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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
FY2025still arriving	27	$1.1M	15%
FY2024	25	$2.1M	20%
FY2023	28	$1.2M	21%
FY2022	27	$1.3M	26%
FY2021	28	$1.1M	21%
FY2020	28	$931k	61%
FY2019	22	$803k	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, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MYouth Development$779kHealth$565kEnvironment$563kHousing & Shelter$430kAnimals$424kOther$0

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
Omaha Children's Trust	$1,000,000	1	4%
Creighton University	$575,000	4	0%
University of Nebraska Foundation	$450,000	5	0%
Omaha Children's Museum	$438,000	7	2%
Omaha Botanical Center Inc	$430,000	7	4%
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc	$420,000	4	1%
Omaha Zoo Foundation	$399,000	4	1%
Completely Kids	$277,500	7	1%
Dreamweaver Foundation	$266,500	4	4%
The Durham Museum	$240,000	7	1%

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All grantees of Parker Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Omaha Children's Trust	$1,000,000	1	4%
Creighton University	$575,000	4	0%
University of Nebraska Foundation	$450,000	5	0%
Omaha Children's Museum	$438,000	7	2%
Omaha Botanical Center Inc	$430,000	7	4%
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc	$420,000	4	1%
Omaha Zoo Foundation	$399,000	4	1%
Completely Kids	$277,500	7	1%
Dreamweaver Foundation	$266,500	4	4%
The Durham Museum	$240,000	7	1%
Westside Community Schools Foundation Inc	$235,000	7	1%
Casa for Douglas County	$225,000	5	6%
Women's Center for Advancement	$222,500	6	1%
Northstar Foundation	$210,000	5	2%
Omaha by Design	$200,000	3	15%
Angels Among US	$175,000	5	4%
Omaha Discovery Trust	$170,000	2	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands	$160,000	4	0%
Child Saving Institute Inc	$150,000	5	0%
Fontenelle Forest	$132,500	2	3%
Michigan Maritime Museum Inc	$125,000	2	3%
Omaha Theater Company	$123,000	5	1%
Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation	$120,000	2	1%
Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc	$111,500	3	3%
Project Harmony	$103,000	5	0%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation	$102,300	4	0%
Cues Fund	$100,000	2	1%
Omaha Performing Arts Society	$100,000	1	0%
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation	$100,000	4	0%
Omaha Public Schools Foundation	$83,000	1	2%
Nebraska Association of Area Agencies on Aging Inc	$80,000	2	63%
American Cancer Society Inc	$75,000	2	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$67,500	5	0%
Merrymakers Association	$65,000	6	3%
Connected Roots Care Center	$65,000	4	0%
Lake Cunningham Development Trust	$60,000	3	3%
Grief's Journey the Collective for Hope	$60,000	3	3%
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum	$50,000	2	1%
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital	$50,000	1	0%
Kids Can Community Center	$50,000	2	1%
Smart Gen Society Inc	$40,000	3	6%
Students Athletes Values Education Inc	$40,000	2	7%
College of Saint Mary	$25,000	1	0%
Nebraska Humane Society	$25,000	1	0%
Omaha Equestrian Foundation	$25,000	1	3%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Siouxland Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Joslyn Art Museum	$22,500	1	0%
Free Bikes 4 Kidz Omaha	$20,000	2	10%
Whyarts Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Abide Network Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Oneworld Community Health Centers Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Vita Nova Maternity Community	$20,000	1	1%
The Omaha Home for Boys	$11,500	1	0%
Omaha Community Playhouse	$10,000	1	0%
Community Information Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Magdalene Omaha Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Financial Hope Collaborative	$10,000	1	2%
DIBS for Kids	$10,000	1	1%
Omaha Girls Rock Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Intercultural Senior Center	$10,000	1	1%
Builders Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Foster Heart & Hope	$10,000	1	5%
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House	$10,000	1	0%
Rabble Mill	$10,000	1	n/a
Girls Incorporated of Omaha	$7,500	1	0%
Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council	$7,500	1	0%

Parker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 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 66.

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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 FoundationNE98.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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 Parker Family Foundation

How much does Parker Family Foundation give?: Parker Family Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,164,500, out of $1,188,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Parker Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (17%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Parker Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Omaha Children's Trust ($1.0M), Creighton University ($575k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($450k).
Does Parker Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Parker Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.
Where is Parker Family Foundation based?: Parker Family Foundation is based in NE.