How much does Weitz Family Foundation give?

Weitz Family Foundation reported 171 grants totaling $19,406,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 172 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Weitz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (13%), Community Improvement (10%).

Who are Weitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($11M), Carleton College ($2.9M), The Union for Contemporary Art Inc ($2.8M).

Does Weitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Weitz 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 Weitz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation.

Where is Weitz Family Foundation based?

Weitz Family Foundation is based in NE.

Foundation Dossiers

Nebraska · Private foundation

Weitz Family 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.

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 171
Grants FY2025: 160
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $606,500
Organizations funded a year: 108 to 172; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $20M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Weitz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	168	$19M	17%
FY2024	160	$15M	13%
FY2023	155	$15M	27%
FY2022	172	$15M	26%
FY2021	159	$13M	33%
FY2020	126	$11M	26%
FY2019	108	$13M	36%
FY2017	108	$14M	n/a

95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$27MArts & Culture$16MCommunity Improvement$12MHealth$12MHuman Services$9.9MCrime & Legal$8.0MPublic Benefit$5.7MCivil Rights$5.6MOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation	$10,854,409	8	1%
Carleton College	$2,900,000	2	1%
The Union for Contemporary Art Inc	$2,839,500	8	68%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$2,799,300	8	10%
Avenue Scholars	$2,775,000	8	10%
Opera Omaha Inc	$2,585,646	8	10%
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table	$2,392,500	8	23%
Depaul University	$2,240,000	6	0%
No More Empty Pots	$1,957,000	8	17%
Oneworld Community Health Centers Inc	$1,875,000	7	1%

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All grantees of Weitz Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation	$10,854,409	8	1%
Carleton College	$2,900,000	2	1%
The Union for Contemporary Art Inc	$2,839,500	8	68%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$2,799,300	8	10%
Avenue Scholars	$2,775,000	8	10%
Opera Omaha Inc	$2,585,646	8	10%
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table	$2,392,500	8	23%
Depaul University	$2,240,000	6	0%
No More Empty Pots	$1,957,000	8	17%
Oneworld Community Health Centers Inc	$1,875,000	7	1%
Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc	$1,857,000	6	10%
Justice for Our Neighbors-Nebraska	$1,750,000	4	10%
African American Empowerment Network In	$1,550,000	7	12%
Center for Rural Affairs	$1,530,000	8	4%
Education Rights Counsel	$1,500,000	7	47%
Urban League of Nebraska	$1,466,520	8	9%
Heartland Workers Center	$1,360,000	8	13%
Intercultural Senior Center	$1,330,000	8	21%
Seventy-Five North Revitalization Corporation	$1,293,000	3	8%
Film Streams Inc	$1,284,063	8	8%
College of Saint Mary	$1,282,000	7	1%
Kids Can Community Center	$1,250,000	7	6%
Opensky Policy Institute	$1,240,000	8	44%
Family Housing Advisory Services	$1,225,000	7	6%
Nebraska Journalism Trust	$1,225,000	4	28%
Spark Program Inc	$1,203,584	5	14%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation	$1,200,000	4	2%
Joslyn Art Museum	$1,113,500	8	3%
Southside Redevelopment Corporation	$1,020,000	3	6%
Yates Fund	$1,000,000	2	37%
I Be Black Girl	$846,500	5	9%
Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc	$800,000	3	1%
College Possible Inc	$795,000	7	1%
Economic Empowerment Center	$775,000	4	5%
Omaha Economic Development Corporation	$772,000	5	6%
D2 Center Inc	$762,000	8	13%
Omaha Symphony Association	$762,000	5	3%
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health	$700,000	3	0%
International Council for Refugees and Immigrants Inc	$680,000	5	10%
Center for Holistic Development	$657,500	8	15%
Girls Incorporated of Omaha	$651,700	7	3%
Whispering Roots Inc	$640,000	8	14%
Voz de Esperanza	$635,700	5	18%
Completely Kids	$620,000	8	5%
The Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha Nebraska	$620,000	6	17%
Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition Inc	$609,000	7	4%
Simple Foundation	$608,500	6	8%
Inclusive Communities	$600,000	7	20%
Civic Nebraska	$560,000	8	5%
Charles Drew Health Center Inc	$510,000	6	0%
Autism Action Partnership	$502,063	8	21%
Nebraska Forward Inc	$500,000	1	20%
El Museo Latino	$470,000	8	8%
Legal Aid of Nebraska	$447,200	7	1%
Nebraska Writers Collective	$440,800	8	17%
Refugee Empowerment Center	$391,000	5	9%
Holy Name Housing Corporation	$388,584	8	1%
Nebraska Enterprise Fund	$380,000	6	11%
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim	$373,500	6	16%
Black Men United	$360,100	8	14%
Nonprofit Association of the Midlands	$355,000	8	14%
Collective For Youth	$355,000	7	1%
Child Saving Institute Inc	$352,500	7	1%
Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation	$335,000	3	4%
Carole's House of Hope	$320,131	7	8%
Nebraska Medicine	$313,133	2	0%
Midlands African Chamber Inc	$312,875	5	23%
Together Inc of Metropolitan Omaha	$307,500	6	1%
Gotta Be Me Inc	$302,000	8	20%
Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership	$292,500	7	4%
Women's Center for Advancement	$290,000	5	2%
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation	$285,000	5	1%
Financial Hope Collaborative	$283,000	7	4%
Bountiful Harvest	$277,000	7	n/a
Nothing but Net Foundation	$260,000	8	64%
Black Votes Matter Institute of Community Engagement	$253,000	3	11%
The House of Afros Capes & Curls Inc	$251,000	7	60%
Susan Laflesche Picotte Center	$250,000	2	30%
Mental Health Innovation Foundation	$250,000	2	1%
Project Harmony	$235,000	5	0%
World Speaks	$232,500	3	18%
Mentor Nebraska	$231,000	7	10%
Great Plains Theatre Commons	$230,000	3	22%
Omaha 100	$223,584	4	5%
United by Culture Media Inc	$205,000	4	36%
Mosaic Community Development	$200,000	3	10%
The Nebraska Medical Center	$200,000	1	0%
City of Omaha Police Foundation Inc	$200,000	1	12%
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Inc	$200,000	1	1%
Heart Ministry Center	$185,000	6	1%
One Omaha	$180,000	6	10%
United Way of the Midlands	$175,615	4	1%
Heartland Family Service	$175,000	1	1%
Omaha Conservatory of Music	$170,000	4	3%
Unity in Action	$170,000	5	15%
Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc	$160,000	3	1%
Voices for Children in Nebraska	$155,000	3	6%
Omaha Children's Trust	$150,000	1	n/a
Banister's Leadership Academy	$150,000	4	5%
Community Information Trust	$150,000	1	1%
Omaha ForUs Inc	$148,750	3	19%
Casa for Douglas County	$140,000	3	4%
Omaha Star Institute	$140,000	1	n/a
Omaha Girls Rock Inc	$140,000	5	23%
Malcolm X Memorial Foundation	$135,000	3	n/a
Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center	$125,000	5	0%
Christian Home Assn - Children's Square USA	$125,000	3	1%
100 Black Men of Omaha Inc	$117,200	4	8%
City Sprouts Inc	$115,000	7	10%
Great Plains Black History Museum	$110,000	5	16%
Inclusive Healers of the Heartland Inc	$104,100	3	21%
Bff Omaha Inc	$102,500	4	5%
Youth Emergency Services Inc	$101,000	4	3%
DIBS for Kids	$100,000	4	5%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc	$100,000	1	3%
League of Women Voters Greater Omaha	$100,000	3	32%
The Omaha Institute for Nonprofit Journalism	$100,000	2	69%
Momentum Park	$100,000	4	10%
The Nebraska Abortion & Reproductive Justice Fund	$100,000	3	6%
Notre Dame Housing Inc	$95,000	5	15%
Restoring Dignity	$90,500	5	3%
Omaha Permaculture	$90,000	3	16%
Refugee Women Rising	$90,000	3	14%
Project Houseworks	$85,000	4	5%
Net Foundation for Television	$85,000	5	1%
Latino Economic Development Corporation	$84,700	2	0%
Omaha Small Business Network Inc	$84,300	1	21%
Learning for All	$82,000	5	6%
Whyarts Inc	$82,000	3	10%
The Set Me Free Project	$80,000	5	10%
Nebraska Coalition for Life Saving Cures	$80,000	4	17%
Pear Tree Performing Arts	$78,000	4	n/a
Institute for Public Leadership	$75,000	6	10%
Grief's Journey the Collective for Hope	$75,000	4	5%
Omaha Municipal Land Bank	$75,000	3	n/a
Kaneko	$74,000	4	3%
Sheltering Tree Inc	$71,350	6	2%
Bluebird Cultural Initiative	$70,000	3	6%
Connected Roots Care Center	$70,000	3	1%
Rise Academy	$70,000	2	0%
Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence Coalition	$65,000	2	5%
Nebraska AIDS Project Inc	$65,000	3	1%
Black and Pink Inc	$65,000	2	2%
Children's Hospital & Medical Center	$63,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands	$60,000	3	0%
Kindair at the Benson Theatre	$60,000	4	3%
Now Initiative	$60,000	2	6%
House of Bah Foundation	$60,000	1	n/a
Poc Collaborative Community Resource Center	$60,000	2	5%
Partnership 4 Kids Inc	$60,000	2	2%
El Centro Hispano Inc	$55,250	1	1%
Omaha Community Playhouse	$55,000	3	0%
African Culture Connection	$55,000	5	3%
Omaha Theater Company	$50,000	2	1%
Food Bank for the Heartland	$50,000	2	0%
Outlinc Inc Outnebraska	$50,000	2	7%
Pro Publica Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Blue Barn Theatre	$50,000	3	2%
Internews Network	$50,000	1	0%
Healthy Housing Omaha	$45,000	2	3%
New Life Family Alliance Inc	$44,300	5	5%
Code Black Professional Tech Network	$41,500	3	4%
Ascendigo Autism Services Inc	$40,000	2	0%
Omaha Discovery Trust	$40,000	1	1%
Saving Grace Perishable Food Rescue Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Amplify Arts	$40,000	2	5%
Omaha Public Library Foundation	$40,000	2	1%
Ollie Webb Center Inc	$40,000	4	1%
Somali American Heritage Society of Nebraska	$40,000	3	n/a
Youth Care Inc	$40,000	3	2%
Somali Community Services Inc	$40,000	4	n/a
Omaha Children's Museum	$40,000	2	1%
Incommon Housing Development Corporation	$40,000	1	n/a
Metropolitan Community College Foundation	$37,000	4	0%
North 24th Street Business Improvement D	$35,000	3	8%
Multicultural Coalition	$35,000	1	4%
Imagine Omaha	$35,000	3	n/a
Compassion in Action Inc	$35,000	3	16%
Respect2	$35,000	2	10%
New Leaders Council	$34,000	4	1%
Nebraska Afghan Community Center	$30,500	2	9%
The Film Collaborative Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
The Omaha Film Festival % Marc Longbrake	$30,000	4	10%
Partners for Livable Omaha	$30,000	3	3%
Circle Theatre Inc	$30,000	2	12%
The Wellbeing Partners	$30,000	2	3%
Healing Ribbons	$27,500	2	3%
Movement in Omaha for Racial Equity More	$27,200	3	n/a
Live Well Omaha	$25,000	1	8%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands	$25,000	1	1%
East African Development Association of Nebraska	$25,000	4	8%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Anastasis Theatre Co	$20,000	1	n/a
Credit Advisors Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
Mildred D Brown Memoria Study Center Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Furniture Project Omaha	$20,000	1	2%
Roam Share	$20,000	2	1%
Greater Omaha Alliance for Business Ethics	$20,000	1	4%
Clyde Malone Community Center Foundation	$20,000	2	n/a
Front Porch Investments	$20,000	1	0%
Nebraska Black Women United	$20,000	2	n/a
Big Muddy Urban Farm Inc	$20,000	2	7%
Nebraska Cultural Endowment	$20,000	2	0%
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Family Planning Council of Nebraska Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Storycatchers	$20,000	1	2%
Nebraska Children's Home Society Foundation	$20,000	1	2%
Heartland United for Puerto Rico	$15,000	2	n/a
Survivors Rising	$15,000	2	7%
Room for Roots Inc	$15,000	2	10%
Fontenelle Forest	$15,000	1	0%
Nebraska Golf Foundation	$12,000	2	13%
Joy Ambition	$12,000	1	n/a
Omaha Area Youth Orchestras	$10,000	1	3%
North Omaha Neighborhood Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Freedomtainment Inc	$10,000	2	1%
Centerpointe Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Unbound Konnect	$10,000	1	n/a
Borderless Collective Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Bicycle Shop of Omaha	$10,000	1	13%
Omaha by Design	$10,000	1	2%
Grow Nebraska	$10,000	1	0%
For All Counseling Services Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Share Omaha	$10,000	1	n/a
Millard Public Schools Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Nebraska Humanities Council	$10,000	1	0%
Holland Children's Institute	$10,000	1	3%
Omaha Community Broadcasting	$10,000	1	n/a
League For African Advancement	$6,858	1	24%
The Keys Foundation	$6,000	1	n/a
All Communities Outreach Services Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Prairie STEM	$5,000	1	1%
Siena Francis House	$5,000	1	0%
Community Alliance Rehabilitation Services	$5,000	1	0%
Imagine Inclusion Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Financial Beginnings	$5,000	1	1%
Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation	$5,000	1	1%
Conservation Nebraska	$5,000	1	4%
Interfaith Health Service	$5,000	1	3%
Fashion Arts Collective Co Michael Schilken Dvorak Law Group	$5,000	1	8%
Autism Center of Nebraska Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of the Midlands Inc	$1,600	1	1%
Gifford Park Neighborhood Assn	$1,000	1	n/a
Kevin O'Connor Scholarship Fund Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Metro Young Latino Professionals Association Inc	$500	1	n/a
American Cancer Society Inc	$311	1	0%
North Omaha Area Health	$15	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 120 recipients with no EIN on record ($23M), not named here.

Weitz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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 200.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Sherwood FoundationNE306.1× affinity190 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock 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.

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About Weitz Family Foundation

How much does Weitz Family Foundation give?: Weitz Family Foundation reported 171 grants totaling $19,406,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 172 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Weitz Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (13%), Community Improvement (10%).
Who are Weitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($11M), Carleton College ($2.9M), The Union for Contemporary Art Inc ($2.8M).
Does Weitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Weitz 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 Weitz Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation.
Where is Weitz Family Foundation based?: Weitz Family Foundation is based in NE.