· Private foundation
The Bokenkamp Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONA | $10,000 |
| KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE | $5,075 |
| KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CRANE RIVER THEATRE | $2,500 |
| KCRW | $2,500 |
| BUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| SAFE CENTER | $1,500 |
| NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +55%
- WTWORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +67%
- KPKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TWTHE WORLD THEATREone grant, 2020 · $22k
- KAKEARNEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -57%
- CRCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +81%
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.
The foundation's purpose is to establish a charitable foundation for charitable, civic, educational and scientific purposes for the use and benefit of persons of kearney county, nebraska.
We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.
This organization provides services to kearney area individuals in need.
Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.
To provide a variety of events including the county fair and other educational, agricultural, and entertainment events.
The Kearney Enrichment Council operates programs focusing on youth enrichment, senior adults, downtown revitalization, and emergency support. In KECs Spark Program, over 40 youth, participated in culinary art, technology and engineering…
To provide food and other needs for people living in kearney mo
Uptown operates its performing arts center as a home for live performances, film, education, and the life of our community.
The kearney area children's museum inspires play, exploration, & discovery through interactive experiences.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
Nurture local agriculture, craftsmen & artists
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds HELPCARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER ↗
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: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Tye Family Foundation · Arram Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bokenkamp Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bokenkamp Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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