· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25M · revenue +12%
- ODOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST4× · 2022–2025 · $21M · revenue +28% · 89% of their budget
- CICOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST4× · 2021–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +349%
Funded once
- FPFront Porch Investmentsone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
- LCLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -54% · 65% of their budget
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone 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.
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.
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.
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne
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.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Support the activities of the nebraska arts council and the nebraska humanities council doing business as humanities nebraska.
The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.
Support for community colleges
To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.
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.
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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
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.
How this is measured
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