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Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository
ActivePublic CharityPhilanthropy & Voluntarism
About Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository
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Focus Areas
Community developmentGrantmakingDonor advised fundsNonprofit capacity buildingEducationHealthHousingWorkforceArts & cultureCivic engagementTransportationSafety
Who They Fund
youth and adolescentspeople with mental health needs or crisis supportpatients or populations affected by medical diseases/disorders
About Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository
A defining feature of Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository is its resident-led and community-interest fund structure, which channels donor-directed and community-prioritized dollars into Omaha-area needs. The foundation’s recent grants show a strong tilt toward human services, civil rights and advocacy, health, and community improvement, alongside support for faith-based work, arts, and disease-focused organizations. One of the largest recent awards went to Abide Network in Omaha for human services, with another major grant to All Saints Episcopal Church for religion and spiritual development. The pattern also includes sizable support for ACLU Nebraska Foundation in Lincoln and African Immigrant Family Serv in Papillion, indicating a mix of local service delivery and statewide advocacy. Community Interest Funds such as the African American Unity Fund, Futuro Latino Fund, LGBTQIA2S+ Equality Fund, Omaha Neighborhood Grants, and Community Resilience Fund point to giving that is organized around specific communities and local priorities rather than a single program area. The foundation also administers grant programs tied to nonprofit capacity building and the City of Omaha ARPA Community Grant Program, showing an operational role in local philanthropy and public-service funding.
What Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository Funds
In human services, the foundation made repeated grants to Abide Network in Omaha, including $203,348 in 2025 and $121,646 in 2023, which signals continued support for direct-service work. Civil rights and advocacy is another visible area: ACLU Nebraska Foundation in Lincoln received $56,678 in 2023 and $52,500 in 2025. Health funding appears in both disease-specific and broader community-health work, including $34,700 to American Cancer Society in Omaha and $23,100 to A Time To Heal in Omaha. The grant list also includes faith-related giving, such as $109,675 to All Saints Episcopal Church in 2025, showing that spiritual development is part of the foundation’s funding mix.
How Omaha Community Foundation Donor Directed Depository Gives
Typical grants cluster around a median of $21,675, with the middle half of awards between $9,875 and $43,775. The recent list includes several repeat recipients across multiple years, including Abide Network, ACLU Nebraska Foundation, African Immigrant Family Serv, All Saints Episcopal Church, 50 Mile March Foundation Inc, and ALS in the Heartland, which suggests ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. The foundation is a public charity with a mixed community foundation / donor-advised fund profile, and its grant programs include both unsolicited community funds and capacity-building resources. Some programs accept unsolicited requests, while the nonprofit capacity building line does not.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$485K
Total Assets
$63.6M
Total Revenue
$70M
Total Expenses
$54.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $44K, with a median of $22K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$22K
75th Percentile
$44K
Geographic Reach
Regional5 states funded
About 75% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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