Nebraska · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,516,624
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 62
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $965M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $26M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $56M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $15M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $8.5M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $7.8M | 53% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $13M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $44,600,979 | 6 | 5% |
| Colorado State University Foundation | $10,498,850 | 3 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Community College Foundation | $7,570,917 | 6 | 30% |
| Hastings College | $6,538,944 | 3 | 9% |
| Teammates Mentoring Program | $5,040,500 | 4 | 68% |
| Amy L Scott Family Foundation | $5,000,080 | 1 | 83% |
| Dixon Family Foundation | $5,000,080 | 1 | 88% |
| Parker Family Foundation | $5,000,080 | 1 | 84% |
| Lori & David Scott Foundation | $5,000,080 | 1 | 91% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $4,331,775 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 139 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 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: 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
About Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation
- How much does Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation give?
- Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $25,748,185 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 62 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (66%), Philanthropy (17%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: University of Nebraska Foundation ($45M), Colorado State University Foundation ($10M), Metropolitan Community College Foundation ($7.6M).
- Does Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation based?
- Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation is based in NE.
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