Nebraska · Private foundation
The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $387k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 53 | $387k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $329k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $230k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $270k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $216k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $197k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $380,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gillwell Foundation | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council | $73,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Northstar Foundation | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nebraska Humane Society | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Omaha Home for Boys | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westside Community Schools Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Harbor House | $17,800 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($603k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation with peer funders
About The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation
- How much does The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation give?
- The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $386,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Youth Development (17%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($380k), Gillwell Foundation ($130k), Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council ($73k).
- Does The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation based?
- The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation is based in NE.
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