Nebraska · Private foundation
The Ethel S Abbott Charitable 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $190,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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 | 29 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $639k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $803k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $633k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $799k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $914k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, 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 | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lincoln Children's Zoo | $332,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation | $240,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Lake Cunningham Development Trust | $175,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The Willa Cather Foundation | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Bellevue University | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Omaha Discovery Trust | $105,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Outlook-Nebraska Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northeast Community College Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($744k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 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 Sherwood Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Lienemann Charitable Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation give?
- The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,111,034 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Arts & Culture (17%), Animals (16%).
- Who are The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($600k), Omaha Zoo Foundation ($500k), Lincoln Children's Zoo ($332k).
- Does The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation based?
- The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation is based in NE.
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