Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,241 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($35,728). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7B
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $2.7B
What The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation does
Programs
Scholarships - paid $34,005,734 in scholarships.
$626,316 spent2025 nebraska fafsa awareness initiative
$19,485 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.3B to $2.8B (+25%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Susan A Buffett
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 62 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 62 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,241 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($35,728). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,241 in grants to THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing