Nebraska · Public charity
Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society
Uniting hardworking americans to secure their financial future while strengthening our communities and country.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $568k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $178,329
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11.3B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 | 23 | $568k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $509k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $556k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $816k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $842k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $323k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $266k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $262k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $1,451,040 | 5 | 1% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $778,319 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce | $215,150 | 6 | 4% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $166,950 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $157,378 | 8 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc | $92,729 | 8 | 0% |
| Omaha Symphony Association | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| First Responders Foundation | $85,200 | 6 | 2% |
| Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $71,774 | 5 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society 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: The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society with peer funders
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About Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society
- How much does Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society give?
- Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society reported 24 itemized grants totaling $567,714, out of $1,057,606 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Gary Sinise Foundation ($1.5M), Food Bank for the Heartland ($778k), Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce ($215k).
- Does Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society based?
- Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is based in NE.
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