Skip to content

Nebraska · Private foundation

Tye Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2026
12
Organizations funded FY2025
25%
First-time grantees FY2025
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2026
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 15
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$327k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 25% of the organizations Tye Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving12$32k25%
FY202512$29k25%
FY202415$26k53%
FY202312$28k33%
FY202211$27k73%
FY202113$24kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$47kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$8kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $39,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMobridge Rodeo Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWoodstock Day School: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYanney Heritage Park Foundation Inc: $6,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKearney Concert Association: $5,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLegacy of the Plains Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKenesaw United Child Care Coalition Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKearney Community Theatre: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKearney Public Schools Foundation: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlack and Pink Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArc of Buffalo County: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Society of Naturalists: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKearney Catholic Hs Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOmaha Equestrian Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo County Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKearney Family YMCA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor the Earth: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 17.

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.

Cope Ron & Carol Foundation TrustNE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

Compare Tye Family Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tye Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tye Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Tye Family Foundation

How much does Tye Family Foundation give?
Tye Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $33,250 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Tye Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Tye Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: University of Nebraska Foundation ($40k), Barryville Farmers Market Inc ($15k), Mobridge Rodeo Foundation Inc ($11k).
Does Tye Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tye Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tye Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust, Peter Kiewit Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation.
Where is Tye Family Foundation based?
Tye 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 40 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Tye Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph