Nebraska · Private foundation
Sunny Durham Family 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Sunny Durham Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 | 22 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $960k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $767k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Humane Society | $522,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Completely Kids | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Intercultural Senior Center | $285,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Durham Museum | $210,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Kaneko | $200,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Omaha Public Schools Foundation | $185,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Paws Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Quality Living Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Humane Society | $522,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Completely Kids | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $300,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Intercultural Senior Center | $285,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Durham Museum | $210,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Kaneko | $200,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Omaha Public Schools Foundation | $185,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Paws Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Quality Living Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Joslyn Castle Trust Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 2% |
| No More Empty Pots | $70,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Kicks for a Cure Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Learning for All | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Assistance League of Omaha Nebraska Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Conestoga Booster Club | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Great Plains Theatre Commons | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Best Buddies International Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sunny Durham Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Richard Brooke Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sunny Durham Family Foundation
- How much does Sunny Durham Family Foundation give?
- Sunny Durham Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,480,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sunny Durham Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (15%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Sunny Durham Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Nebraska Humane Society ($522k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($350k), Completely Kids ($325k).
- Does Sunny Durham Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunny Durham Family 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 Sunny Durham Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation.
- Where is Sunny Durham Family Foundation based?
- Sunny Durham Family Foundation is based in NE.
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