· Private foundation
Rebecca Susan Buffett 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRESHOLDS | $4,200,000 |
| BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND | $3,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $1,002,528 |
| CORNELL COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| LATINO CENTER OF THE MIDLANDS | $500,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $334,000 |
| NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION | $265,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $215,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $200,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| RADIUS | $100,000 |
| AVENUE SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| ONE WORLD | $100,000 |
| COMPLETELY KIDS | $80,000 |
| PUBLIC COUNSEL | $75,105 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +70%
- TTTHE THRESHOLDS8× · 2018–2025 · $17M · revenue +48%
- BEBUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND6× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TPTHRESHOLDS PSYCHIATRIC REHAB CENTERSone grant, 2017 · $462k
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +44%- OPOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -78%
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 131 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
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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLDS ↗
- Who funds BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds THE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds The Everychild Foundation ↗
- Who funds RISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE BIDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Collective For Youth ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Lozier Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Giving 3 Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Hawks Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Our House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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