Nebraska · Private foundation
Peter Kiewit Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $29M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 160
- Grants FY2025
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 85 to 152
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $467M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Peter Kiewit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 | 72 | $29M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 85 | $33M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $54M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $36M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 152 | $30M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown Riverfront Trust | $45,500,000 | 3 | 36% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $25,305,781 | 5 | 3% |
| Omaha Discovery Trust | $21,151,000 | 4 | 89% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $5,021,500 | 4 | 8% |
| Community Information Trust | $3,900,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Metropolitan Community College Foundation | $3,693,927 | 5 | 22% |
| Collective For Youth | $3,088,145 | 5 | 10% |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $2,225,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Northeast Community College Foundation | $2,015,085 | 5 | 43% |
| Front Porch Investments | $2,000,000 | 1 | 37% |
Show all 212 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Peter Kiewit Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 18 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 191 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund
How this is measured
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About Peter Kiewit Foundation
- How much does Peter Kiewit Foundation give?
- Peter Kiewit Foundation reported 160 grants totaling $29,162,344 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 152 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Peter Kiewit Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Arts & Culture (26%), Education (24%).
- Who are Peter Kiewit Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Downtown Riverfront Trust ($46M), University of Nebraska Foundation ($25M), Omaha Discovery Trust ($21M).
- Does Peter Kiewit Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peter Kiewit Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peter Kiewit Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Peter Kiewit Foundation based?
- Peter Kiewit Foundation is based in NE.
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