Nebraska · Private foundation
The Chief Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $224k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations The Chief Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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 | 11 | $199k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $179k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $114k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $74k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $63k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Catholic Development Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Grand Island Children's Museum | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mary Lanning Healthcare Foundation | $49,999 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wood River Vision 2020 | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Centura Educational Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Northeast Community College Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aurora Housing Development Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hastings College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Catholic Development Foundation | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Grand Island Children's Museum | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mary Lanning Healthcare Foundation | $49,999 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wood River Vision 2020 | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossroads Center Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Centura Educational Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Northeast Community College Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aurora Housing Development Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hastings College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Doniphan Economic Development Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Appleseed Childhood Education Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Nebraska Vocational Agricultural Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oasis Counseling International | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kearney Public Schools Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chief Foundation Inc 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 Sherwood Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Virgil Eihusen Foundation Inc · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Chief Foundation Inc
- How much does The Chief Foundation Inc give?
- The Chief Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $223,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Chief Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Chief Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Central Catholic Development Foundation ($150k), Grand Island Children's Museum ($60k), Mary Lanning Healthcare Foundation ($50k).
- Does The Chief Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chief Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chief Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Land O'Lakes Foundation, Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Chief Foundation Inc based?
- The Chief Foundation Inc is based in NE.
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