Nebraska · Private foundation
Shoemaker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Shoemaker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 13 | $107k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $88k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $96k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $102k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $75k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $94k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $82k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $72k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nebraska Humanities Council | $40,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Crane River Theater Company Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Nebraska Cultural Endowment | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opensky Policy Institute | $28,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nebraska Lions Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Cambridge Senior Center Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Cambridge Park Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lincoln Orchestra Association | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nebraska Humanities Council | $40,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Crane River Theater Company Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Nebraska Cultural Endowment | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Opensky Policy Institute | $28,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nebraska Lions Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Cambridge Senior Center Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Cambridge Park Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lincoln Orchestra Association | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Economic Development Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Cambridge Public School Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hastings College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 86% |
| Cambridge Community Daycare Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Inner City Impact | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| McCook Education Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shoemaker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Kitty M Perkins Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Graff Charitable Foundation Inc Co P Mark Graff · Hormel Harris Foundation · James Stuart III Family Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Shoemaker Family Foundation
- How much does Shoemaker Family Foundation give?
- Shoemaker Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $107,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shoemaker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Human Services (18%), Education (9%).
- Who are Shoemaker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach ($46k), Nebraska Journalism Trust ($40k), Nebraska Humanities Council ($40k).
- Does Shoemaker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shoemaker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shoemaker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kitty M Perkins Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Shoemaker Family Foundation based?
- Shoemaker Family Foundation is based in NE.
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