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Lockwood Foundation

Centennial, CO · EIN 47-6032746. Reported 112 grants totalling $227,100 to 30 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,200median grant
$227,100granted, 2021-2025
30recipients, as named on its returns
91%of grantees funded again the next year
$422,360assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lockwood Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,200. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $1,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $12,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
94 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
First United Methodist ChScottsbluff, NE$56,000552025
Wncc FoundationScottsbluff, NE$25,250552025
Regional West FoundationScottsbluff, NE$17,000442024
Legacy of the PlainsGering, NE$10,300552025
Oregon Trail Community FoundationScottsbluff, NE$9,000552025
Midwest TheaterScottsbluff, NE$7,500552025
Christian Living CommunityDenver, CO$7,250332025
Platte InstituteOmaha, NE$7,200552025
Theater WestScottsbluff, NE$7,100552025
United Way of Western NebraskaScottsbluff, NE$6,550552025
Ne Community FoundationLincoln, NE$6,400552025
Christian Record ServicesLincoln, NE$6,000442025
Mayo Clinic FoundationRochester, MN$6,000552025
CASA of Scotts Bluff CounGering, NE$5,700552025
Longs Peak CouncilScottsbluff, NE$5,700552025
Salvation ArmyDenver, CO$5,400552025
Nebraska Society of Cpas FoundationLincoln, NE$5,200552025
YMCAScottsbluff, NE$5,200552025
University of DenverDenver, CO$5,100552025
Options Pregnancy CenterScottsbluff, NE$4,700552025
Humanities NebraskaLincoln, NE$4,000442025
Riverside Zoological SocietyScottsbluff, NE$4,000222022
Northfield HavenScottsbluff, NE$3,200222025
Riverside Zoological FoundationScottsbluff, NE$3,000112024
Montana History FoundationHelena, MT$1,500112022
Rotary Club FoundationDenver, CO$1,250222022
Nebraska Cultral EndowmentOmaha, NE$1,000112021
Loper Athletic ClubKearney, NE$250112024
Lopers Athletics ClubKearney, NE$250112022
Foundation Fighting BlindnessColumbia, MD$100112023

24 of 30 (80%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 91%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 47 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
11 grants
Education
10 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Social Science
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Medical Research
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$46,950$1,100
202224$50,450$1,500
202322$45,300$1,100
202424$47,650$1,200
202521$36,750$1,200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

88% of its giving went to organizations in Nebraska. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Nebraska
$200K
Colorado
$19K
Minnesota
$6K
Montana
$2K
Maryland
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Oregon Trail Community Foundation8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsNebraska Humanities Council3 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program3 shared recipientsThe Ayco Charitable Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,200. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Nebraska.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Lockwood Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 5500 East Peakview Avenue 2204, Centennial, CO, 80121. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-6032746 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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