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.

The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation

The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$387k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$130k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$454kYouth Development$285kHuman Services$105kArts & Culture$99kHealth$76kFood & Nutrition$62kHousing & Shelter$41kAnimals$40kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k46 grants · $106k
$10k–50k5 grants · $81k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GILLWELL FOUNDATION	$130,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$70,000
Individual grant recipient	$40,500
SAVINGS GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE	$10,000
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION	$10,000
FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$10,000
CHILDREN'S NEBRASKA HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$5,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY	$5,000
OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS	$5,000
SHELTERING TREE	$5,000
SCOUTING AMERICA MID AMERICA COUNCIL	$5,000
MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$4,500
OPEN DOOR MISSION	$3,000
HOSPICE HOUSE	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 58 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

Still filing today

60%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +31%
BS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL
4× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +19%
FB
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND
6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +43%

Funded once

LF
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
VV
VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -80%
RR
ROCK RANCHgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +57%

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.

04Its field

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.

One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement

Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports

Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health

The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Omaha Parks Foundation

The mission of the omaha parks foundation is to improve, promote, preserve, protect, and support omaha's parks and recreation system. we engage in initiatives that make our parks system more accessible, inclusive, and beneficial to all…

Environment

Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hats That Heal Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 72 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

23/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$831,250Education$404,000Youth Development$171,000Human Services$98,250Health$53,900Animals$36,500Arts & Culture$35,000

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.

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE60.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home