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Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to distribute funds for charitable purposes in the areas of civic, cultural, health, education, and social services.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$7.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$84MPhilanthropy$22MYouth Development$5.4MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$2.0MRecreation & Sports$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.8MHealth$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $950k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $983k
  • $250k+8 grants · $24M
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$965M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$7,516,624
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,903,944
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$3,914,500
AVENUE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$2,230,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - OMAHA$1,500,303
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,308,626
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY$1,075,556
WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION$300,000
MADONNA SCHOOL$153,000
OMAHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE$70,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION$67,000
PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH$60,000
STEPHEN CENTER$58,000
WHISPERING ROOTS$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $30k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $45k → 12%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $35k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $45k → 12%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $25k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $35k → 12%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $67k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $40k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $30k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $25k → 12%THE METRO AREA CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $50k → 12%METRO AREA CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOPE INC: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEARTLAND CHAPTER: $55k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $50k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $45k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $500k → 12%OMAHA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $300k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $90k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $50k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $45k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $40k → 12%EASTERN NEBRASKA OFFICE ON AGING: $50k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $35k → 12%CRCC: $50k → 12%CRCC: $35k → 12%CRCC: $30k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $85k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $50k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $45k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $40k → 12%TOGETHER INC: $30k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $50k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $30k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $100k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $50k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $40k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $40k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
IN
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
HI
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97M · 74 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
59

Total granted

$97M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

97%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45M · revenue +39%
  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +24%
  • TM
    TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM
    4× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +141% · 68% of their budget

Funded once

  • AL
    AMY L SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue -53% · 83% of their budget
  • DF
    DIXON FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue -49% · 88% of their budget
  • PF
    PARKER FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue -53% · 84% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
3
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

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.

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4
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
5
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

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6
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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7
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Omaha 100

Our mission is to provide ownership opportunities through public and private partnerships, financing, and technical assistance. by working collaboratively, we aim to expand access to capital in underserved communities, empowering…

Housing & Shelter
9
Omaha Parks Foundation

The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…

Environment
10
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
11
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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12
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Services; the most unlike its peers is Clear Blue Sea. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 144 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/140
Grantees still filing
86/140
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $44,600,979 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,498,850 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,570,917 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONHASTINGS COLLEGE: $6,538,944 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGEAVENUE SCHOLARS: $4,188,141 · EducationAVENUE SCHOLARS+14 more: $4,720,206 · Education+14 moreAMY L SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 · PhilanthropyAMY L SCOTT FAMI…DIXON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 · PhilanthropyDIXON FAMILY FOU…PARKER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 · PhilanthropyPARKER FAMILY FO…Omaha Community Foundation: $1,022,905 · PhilanthropyOmaha Community …NEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA PHILANT…SHARE OMAHA: $950,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $229,800 · PhilanthropyLORI & DAVID SCOTT FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 · OtherLORI & DAVID SCOT…BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $4,331,775 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS …LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $1,120,000 · OtherLAKE CUNNINGHAM D…+63 more: $8,866,025 · Other+63 moreTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $5,040,500 · Youth Development+5 more: $247,100 · Youth DevelopmentYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $500,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500,000 · Human ServicesOMAHA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $285,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $285,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $260,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $240,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $182,000 · Human ServicesINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $155,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · Human Services+16 more: $879,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $580,700 · Animals+2 more: $50,000 · AnimalsRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $225,000 · HealthSANTA MONICA INC: $195,000 · HealthTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $175,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $130,000 · HealthANGELS AMONG US: $102,000 · HealthNEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthLILY HAVEN: $50,000 · HealthTEXOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+3 more: $60,000 · Health
Education$78,118,037Philanthropy$18,202,945Other$19,317,880Youth Development$5,287,600Human Services$3,736,000Animals$1,630,700Health$1,277,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $44,600,979 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,498,850 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,570,917 over 6y, 30% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $6,538,944 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $5,040,500 over 4y, 68% of budgetAMY L SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 over 1y, 83% of budgetDIXON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 over 1y, 88% of budgetPARKER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 over 1y, 84% of budgetLORI & DAVID SCOTT FOUNDATION: $5,000,080 over 1y, 91% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS: $4,188,141 over 4y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION TRUST: $1,500,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetCreighton University: $1,126,556 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $1,120,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $1,022,905 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSHARE OMAHA: $950,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $610,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $580,700 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $570,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGreater Norfolk Economic Development Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $400,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $372,950 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $330,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $309,225 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOMAHA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHERITAGE SERVICES: $290,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $285,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $285,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $275,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $260,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNebraska Defense Research Corporation: $250,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $250,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBLUEPRINT NEBRASKA: $250,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $250,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCOUNCIL BLUFFS SOCCER CLUB: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $240,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCarole's House of Hope: $235,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $225,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $225,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Hawks FoundationMutual of Omaha Found…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Charles and Mary …Leland J & Dorothy H …Nebraska Community Fo…United Way of the Mid…Weitz Family Foundati…Immanuel Community Vi…
The Lozier FoundationNE138.3× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Weitz Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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