Nebraska · Private foundation
Viking Foundation of Lincoln
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Viking Foundation of Lincoln funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 34 | $152k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $125k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $113k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $127k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $103k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $101k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $80k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $77k | 65% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everybody Wins - Iowa | $45,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Nebraska Children & Families Foundation | $30,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Cancer Connection | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mind and Spirit Counseling Center | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for People in Need | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Des Moines Refugee Support | $24,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Voters of Nebraska | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Lincolnlancaster County Child Advocacy Center | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lincoln Bike Kitchen | $18,400 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Viking Foundation of Lincoln supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · The Denver Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Jc & Jessie Seacrest Family Fndtn First Nebraska Trust Co Trustee · The Colorado Health Foundation
How this is measured
About Viking Foundation of Lincoln
- How much does Viking Foundation of Lincoln give?
- Viking Foundation of Lincoln reported 34 grants totaling $152,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Viking Foundation of Lincoln fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (16%), Education (12%).
- Who are Viking Foundation of Lincoln's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Everybody Wins - Iowa ($46k), Nebraska Children & Families Foundation ($31k), Children's Cancer Connection ($30k).
- Does Viking Foundation of Lincoln fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Viking Foundation of Lincoln accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Viking Foundation of Lincoln?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Cooper Foundation, Abel Foundation.
- Where is Viking Foundation of Lincoln based?
- Viking Foundation of Lincoln is based in NE.
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