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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 FY2025still arriving
160
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$49MArts & Culture$48MEducation$44MYouth Development$9.6MCommunity Improvement$7.3MHousing & Shelter$6.0MPhilanthropy$5.1MHuman Services$3.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 160 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k57 grants · $6.1M
  • $250k+29 grants · $22M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$467M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Omaha Discovery Trust$5,000,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$3,000,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$2,500,000
Community Information Trust$1,250,000
Community Information Trust$1,250,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$570,526
University of Nebraska Foundation$538,377
Joslyn Art Museum$500,000
Omaha Performing Arts Society$500,000
City of Fremont$500,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$475,286
University of Nebraska Foundation$454,013
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation$450,000
University of Nebraska Foundation$395,122
University of Nebraska Foundation$389,976
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $160k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $160k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $150k → 12%KEARNEY FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $250k → 13%Kids Can Community Center: $100k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 12%International Council for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: $35k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $18k → 12%Kids Can Community Center: $1k → 12%International Council for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: $25k → 12%Intercultural Senior Center: $10k → 12%Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless: $200k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska: $100k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska: $100k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA: $75k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska Inc: $75k → 12%Urban League of Nebraska: $1k → 12%International Council for Refugees and Immigrants: $35k → 12%INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS: $25k → 12%International Council for Refugees and Immigrants: $25k → 12%International Council for Refugees and Immigrants: $15k → 12%Developing Relationships Through Education and Mentoring Inc: $25k → 12%Project Houseworks: $120k → 12%Project Houseworks: $70k → 12%Project Houseworks: $60k → 12%Together Incorporated of Metropolitan Omaha: $50k → 12%Economic Empowerment Center: $200k → 12%Heartland Workers Center: $50k → 12%Cinco de Mayo Omaha: $25k → 12%Spark Capital: $500k → 12%YMCA of Greater Omaha: $30k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $25k → 12%Restoring Dignity: $35k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162M · 115 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
124

Total granted

$162M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+0%

Still filing today

89%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25M · revenue +12%
  • OD
    OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21M · revenue +28% · 89% of their budget
  • CI
    COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST
    4× · 2021–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +349%

Funded once

  • FP
    Front Porch Investments
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
  • LC
    LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -54% · 65% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -57%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

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2
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

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3
Nebraska City Tourism & Commerce Inc

Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne

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4
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.

Community Improvement
5
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
6
Nebraska Cultural Endowment

Support the activities of the nebraska arts council and the nebraska humanities council doing business as humanities nebraska.

Philanthropy
7
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table

The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.

Civil Rights
8
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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9
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
10
Nebraska Votes

The organization's purpose is to ensure a fair and modern democracy in nebraska through research, education, and advocacy for policies and practices that promote participation in democracy.

Civil Rights
11
North Central Development Center Inc

To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.

Community Improvement
12
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Red Hen Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

211 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 211 of the 258 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
207/211
Grantees still filing
121/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $25,305,781 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $21,151,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUSTCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $3,900,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUSTMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,693,927 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCollective For Youth: $3,088,145 · Education+16 more: $9,337,990 · Education+16 moreDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $45,500,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST+12 more: $3,274,070 · Community Improvement+12 moreOPAS FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000,000 · OtherOPAS FOUNDATION ON BE…LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $1,500,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,175,000 · Other+86 more: $21,960,736 · Other+86 moreJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $5,021,500 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN AR…MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $2,225,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,475,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNION…OPERA OMAHA INC: $732,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $667,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA BY DESIGN: $551,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $543,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $3,586,500 · Arts & Culture+32 moreFront Porch Investments: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1,385,000 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community Foundation: $1,143,000 · PhilanthropyVETERANS TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyMIDWEST HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $650,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA ENTERPRISE FUND: $635,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC: $504,500 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $374,500 · Philanthropy+7 more: $677,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,511,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $1,131,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY KIDS: $986,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $736,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION: $225,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $415,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,188,500 · Human ServicesKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $550,000 · Human ServicesSPARK CAPITAL: $500,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA: $426,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $250,000 · Human ServicesEconomic Empowerment Center: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHRESHOLD COC: $200,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $160,000 · Human Services+3 more: $135,000 · Human Services
Education$66,476,843Community Improvement$48,774,070Other$34,635,736Arts & Culture$14,801,500Philanthropy$9,869,000Youth Development$5,004,000Human Services$3,609,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST: $45,500,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $25,305,781 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $21,151,000 over 4y, 89% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $5,021,500 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $3,900,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,693,927 over 5y, 22% of budgetCollective For Youth: $3,088,145 over 5y, 10% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $2,225,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,015,085 over 5y, 43% of budgetFront Porch Investments: $2,000,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCreighton University: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,519,262 over 5y, 14% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,511,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $1,500,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,475,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $1,385,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,188,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,175,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $1,143,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $1,131,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSPARK: $1,001,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $986,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $750,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $736,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $732,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetHOLY NAME HOUSING CORPORATION: $700,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $667,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMIDWEST HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $650,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetROAM SHARE: $635,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetNEBRASKA ENTERPRISE FUND: $635,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $567,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $560,187 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOMAHA BY DESIGN: $551,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $550,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $543,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $536,456 over 5y, 15% of budgetGREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $505,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC: $504,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO: $500,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSPARK CAPITAL: $500,000 over 1y, 26% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DOWNTOWN RIVERFRONT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Collective For Youth ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Front Porch Investments ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
  • Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY NAME HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ROAM SHARE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Sherwood FoundationNE235.7× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peter Kiewit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter Kiewit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    83report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Peter Kiewit Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 258 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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