Nebraska · Private foundation
Walter Scott Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $46M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 52
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Walter Scott Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $45M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $146M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $101M | 73% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $18M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $72M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $65M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation | $112,680,582 | 5 | 66% |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $66,550,090 | 5 | 97% |
| Downtown Riverfront Trust | $50,440,467 | 4 | 17% |
| Opas Foundation | $15,050,646 | 1 | 17% |
| Singer Foundation | $14,000,370 | 6 | 90% |
| Joslyn Art Museum | $12,019,453 | 4 | 30% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $11,908,406 | 2 | 2% |
| Omaha Discovery Trust | $10,010,338 | 3 | 34% |
| Brownell-Talbot School | $10,000,000 | 2 | 82% |
| Lake Cunningham Development Trust | $8,510,000 | 6 | 95% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter Scott Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 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 Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Walter Scott Family Foundation
- How much does Walter Scott Family Foundation give?
- Walter Scott Family Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $46,261,034 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Walter Scott Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Animals (15%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Walter Scott Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation ($113M), Omaha Zoo Foundation ($67M), Downtown Riverfront Trust ($50M).
- Does Walter Scott Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter Scott Family 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 Walter Scott Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Walter Scott Family Foundation based?
- Walter Scott Family Foundation is based in NE.
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