Nebraska · Private foundation
The Soener 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.
- $502k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations The Soener Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k 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 | 75 | $502k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $462k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $717k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $255k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $257k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $242k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $236k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $235k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Margaret Mary | $99,925 | 7 | n/a |
| Feeding America | $74,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Omaha Conservatory of Music | $69,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Benedictine College | $54,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $51,825 | 7 | 0% |
| Keystone Community Services | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $42,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Academy Christian Church | $35,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus | $26,900 | 4 | 2% |
| Servants of Mary | $26,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 122 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Soener Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation
How this is measured
About The Soener Foundation
- How much does The Soener Foundation give?
- The Soener Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $501,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Soener Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Religion (18%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Soener Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Margaret Mary ($100k), Feeding America ($74k), Omaha Conservatory of Music ($70k).
- Does The Soener Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Soener 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 Soener Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is The Soener Foundation based?
- The Soener Foundation is based in NE.
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