· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS TOWN SUICIDE HOTLINE | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| DUCHESE SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $24,800 |
| OUR LADY OF PILLAR CHURCH | $23,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| CREIGHTON PREP SCHOOL | $18,800 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF OMAHA | $18,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE | $17,000 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| EPIPHANY PARISH | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $12,900 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $12,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $12,000 |
| VALLEY HOPE BOONVILLE CHAPTER | $11,000 |
| TREVOR PROJECT | $11,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
100 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Feeding America9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +84%- OCOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +29%
- BCBenedictine College7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BTBOYS TOWN OF OMAHA SUICIDE HOTLINEone grant, 2022 · $15k
- FHFOOD HEARTLANDone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CICOMPAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +36%
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.
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.
End hunger together.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
How this is measured
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 193 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Soener Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Soener Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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