Nebraska · Private foundation
The Tesi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $275
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $172k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Tesi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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 | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $21k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $27k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $18k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $11k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $9k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $12k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Medical Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| St Louis University | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Siena Francis House | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| Servants of Mary | $500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heartland Hope Mission | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heartland Family Service | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelby Library Foundation | $450 | 8 | n/a |
| Creighton Preparatory School | $450 | 3 | n/a |
| Sheltering Tree Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Medical Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| St Louis University | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Siena Francis House | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| Servants of Mary | $500 | 2 | n/a |
| Heartland Hope Mission | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Heartland Family Service | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Shelby Library Foundation | $450 | 8 | n/a |
| Creighton Preparatory School | $450 | 3 | n/a |
| Sheltering Tree Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Love Moves US Inc | $290 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy High School | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Oasis Counseling International | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Michael Benedictine School | $50 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tesi 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.
Open a dossier: Therese and Tim Fitzgibbons · Midlands Community Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Tesi Foundation
- How much does The Tesi Foundation give?
- The Tesi Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $10,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Tesi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Tesi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nebraska Medical Foundation ($10k), St Louis University ($3k), Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($2k).
- Does The Tesi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tesi Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Tesi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Therese and Tim Fitzgibbons, Midlands Community Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is The Tesi Foundation based?
- The Tesi Foundation is based in NE.
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