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The Rebensdorf Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$229k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
71
Grants FY2026
65
Organizations funded FY2025
3%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
56 to 71
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
18
Total assets, FY2026
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 3% of the organizations The Rebensdorf Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving69$226k12%
FY202565$194k3%
FY202470$200k7%
FY202371$220k6%
FY202268$194k13%
FY202167$146k19%
FY202060$184k13%
FY201956$151k18%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$419kHealth$271kArts & Culture$209kHuman Services$199kYouth Development$114kFood & Nutrition$111kReligion$101kHousing & Shelter$56kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
NE
MO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 79 grantees
All grantees of The Rebensdorf Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$117,200100%
Millard Public Schools Foundation Inc$77,70080%
Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha$74,40091%
World Herald Goodfellows Charities$58,50010n/a
Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House$58,000100%
Food Bank for the Heartland$55,700100%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc$54,500100%
Heart Ministry Center$52,500100%
Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc$47,500100%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation$46,000100%
Autism Speaks Inc$37,50090%
A Time to Heal Inc$36,00092%
Smile Train Inc$33,000100%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$32,00050%
Heartland Hope Mission$24,20080%
Omaha Zoo Foundation$24,000100%
Heartland Family Service$23,700100%
Omaha Street School$21,500101%
The Cedars Home for Children Foundation$20,700100%
National Railroad Hall of Fame Inc$20,50063%
Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation$20,50091%
Omaha Children's Museum$19,300100%
The Tabitha Foundation Inc$18,500100%
Omaha Symphony Association$17,000100%
Nebraska Children's Home Society Inc$15,500100%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands$15,200100%
Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation$14,75090%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$14,500100%
Omaha Community Playhouse$14,000100%
Iowa Railroad Historical Society$14,00070%
Northstar Foundation$14,00090%
The Madonna Foundation$11,50060%
Ncs Hope Foundation$11,30042%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,00060%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$10,00060%
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Inc$9,00090%
Mercy High School$9,0003n/a
The Durham Museum$7,50080%
Railroaders Heritage Corporation$7,50050%
Siena Francis House$7,00070%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$6,30050%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$5,40050%
March of Dimes Inc$5,10030%
Sacred Heart Church$5,0003n/a
Girls Incorporated of Omaha$4,90070%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$4,50010n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$4,20060%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,80080%
Women's Center for Advancement$3,60050%
Illinois Railway Museum Inc$3,50050%
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc$3,425100%
Christ Child Society of Omaha Nebraska$3,40070%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$3,30060%
Blood Cancer United Inc$3,20070%
Dreamweaver Foundation$3,00020%
Harbor House$3,00030%
Nebraska Humane Society$2,50040%
Ronald McDonald House Charities in Omaha Inc$2,50040%
Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska$2,35080%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order$2,3005n/a
American Heart Association Inc$2,17560%
Engine 557 Restoration Company$2,00031%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$2,00040%
Friends of Sp4449 Inc$1,50010%
Gabriel Foundation$1,5001n/a
Breakthrough T1d$1,45020%
Chicago & North Western Historical Society Inc$1,25020%
Pdwell Foundation$1,0001n/a
Burlington Route Historical Society$1,00010%
Ballet Nebraska$80020%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$6004n/a
Feeding America$5001n/a
Literacy Center for the Midlands$5001n/a
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital$50010%
Erath Family Foundation$20010%
American Diabetes Association$20010%
Hospice of Michigan Inc$10010%
Prince of Peace Christian School$10010%
Wichita State University Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($496k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rebensdorf Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $117,200 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetMillard Public Schools Foundation Inc: $77,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Scholarship Fund of Omaha: $74,400 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetOpen Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House: $58,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for the Heartland: $55,700 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc: $54,500 over 10y, 0.2% of budgetHeart Ministry Center: $52,500 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetHeartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $47,500 over 10y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation: $46,000 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $37,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetA Time to Heal Inc: $36,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $33,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Hope Mission: $24,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Zoo Foundation: $24,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetHeartland Family Service: $23,700 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Street School: $21,500 over 10y, 0.5% of budgetThe Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $20,700 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetNational Railroad Hall of Fame Inc: $20,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetOregon Rail Heritage Foundation: $20,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $19,300 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tabitha Foundation Inc: $18,500 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Symphony Association: $17,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetNebraska Children's Home Society Inc: $15,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands: $15,200 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetNebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation: $14,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetOmaha Community Playhouse: $14,000 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Railroad Historical Society: $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNorthstar Foundation: $14,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Madonna Foundation: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNcs Hope Foundation: $11,300 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Valley Railroad Museum Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Durham Museum: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRailroaders Heritage Corporation: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSiena Francis House: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $6,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $5,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Omaha: $4,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $4,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Center for Advancement: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Railway Museum Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc: $3,425 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Child Society of Omaha Nebraska: $3,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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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 FoundationNE62.1× affinity28 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 Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Mammel Family Foundation

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.

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About The Rebensdorf Family Foundation

How much does The Rebensdorf Family Foundation give?
The Rebensdorf Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $228,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 71 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Rebensdorf Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are The Rebensdorf Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: University of Nebraska Foundation ($117k), Millard Public Schools Foundation Inc ($78k), Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha ($74k).
Does The Rebensdorf Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rebensdorf Family 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 Rebensdorf Family 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 Rebensdorf Family Foundation based?
The Rebensdorf Family Foundation is based in NE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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