· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANEKO | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTHSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $150,000 |
| NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SENIOR CENTER | $100,000 |
| LEARNING FOR ALL | $50,000 |
| QUALITY LIVING | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $50,000 |
| OMAHA SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| JOSLYN CASTLE & GARDENS | $50,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $522k · revenue +52%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +392%- CKCOMPLETELY KIDS5× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS HOMEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VNVITA NOVAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MOMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ARTone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -53%
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
The mission of the nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, emplowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
Humanities nebraska helps nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.
Opensky policy institute's mission is to use research, strategic communications and coalition-building to advance evidence-based policies that improve economic opportunity for all nebraskans.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 55 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 NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN CASTLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NO MORE EMPTY POTS ↗
- Who funds KICKS FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA 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 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunny Durham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunny Durham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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