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Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc

Omaha, NE · EIN 47-0840885. Reported 128 grants totalling $21.0M to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

35organizations funded
$90,000median reported grant
$21.0Mgranted, 2021-2025
90%of grantees funded again the next year
18%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in human services (NTEE P012).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $90,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $181,319; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $1,748,395. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
40 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
42 grants
$250,000 Or More
16 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland IncSaint Paul, MN$3,759,499552025
Oneworld Community Health Centers IncOmaha, NE$3,727,937552025
Womens Center for AdvancementOmaha, NE$1,365,600552025
Douglas County Health DepartmentOmaha, NE$1,232,570552025
Board of Regents of the University of NebraskaLincoln, NE$846,596552025
Community Action Partnership of Western NebraskaGering, NE$772,353632023
Charles Drew Health Center IncOmaha, NE$706,268332023
Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault CoalitionLincoln, NE$641,977552025
Choice Family Health Care IncGrand Island, NE$641,562332023
Peoples Family Health Services IncNorth Platte, NE$599,729332023
Nebraska AIDS Project IncOmaha, NE$527,172552025
Family Health ServicesTecumseh, NE$497,416332023
Justice for Our Neighbors NebraskaOmaha, NE$495,000552025
Midtown Health CenterNorfolk, NE$466,589332023
Three Rivers Public Health DepartmentFremont, NE$447,939332023
Magdalene Omaha IncOmaha, NE$440,000552025
The Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital AssociationHastings, NE$437,030332023
Project Harmony-Haven for Abuse Response Members Serving OurOmaha, NE$340,000442024
Good Neighbor Community Health CenterColumbus, NE$335,611332023
Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition IncOmaha, NE$309,843552025
Childrens PhysiciansOmaha, NE$305,421332023
Pottawattamie County Health DepartmentCouncil Bluffs, IA$275,000442025
The Nebraska Medical CenterOmaha, NE$246,213442024
Heartland Family ServiceOmaha, NE$245,321552025
Black and Pink IncBoston, MA$245,000552025
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy CentersOmaha, NE$225,000442024
YouturnOmaha, NE$205,000552025
Survivors RisingOmaha, NE$150,000222022
Rise AcademyOmaha, NE$110,000222025
Nebraska Tribes Addressing Violence CoalitionOmaha, NE$96,000222025
Center for Holistic DevelopmentOmaha, NE$90,000222025
Youth Emergency Services IncOmaha, NE$75,000222025
Pride Health ClinicBellevue, NE$65,000222025
North Omaha Area HealthOmaha, NE$64,905112021
International Council for Refugees and Immigrants IncOmaha, NE$40,000112025

33 of 35 (94%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 1 group of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
10 orgs
Human Services
9 orgs
Crime & Legal
3 orgs
Employment
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202130$7,631,366$107,817
202229$6,332,735$129,150
202327$3,421,016$60,934
202422$1,909,744$52,500
202520$1,733,690$62,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

80% of its giving went to organizations in Nebraska. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Nebraska
$16.7M
Minnesota
$3.8M
Iowa
$275K
Massachusetts
$245K

Down to the city

Omaha, NE
$11.0M
Saint Paul, MN
$3.8M
Lincoln, NE
$1.5M
Gering, NE
$772K
Grand Island, NE
$642K
North Platte, NE
$600K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Midlands10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsRobert B Daugherty Foundation8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsNebraska Community Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $90,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nebraska.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Women's Fund of Greater Omaha Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 4601 Catalyst Ct Ste 1064, Omaha, NE, 68106.

EIN 47-0840885 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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