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Filkins Family Foundation

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$68.3M
in grants paid: 20
grants: 13
recipients: 2022–2025
filing years

Recent grants

The 20 grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$20.7M
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc Dba Cure Blindness Project · Norwich, VT · 2025
Surgeries & equipment
$12.8M
Orbis · New York, NY · 2025
Treatment & prevention of blindness
$1.1M
Nancy Lf Davis Family Foundation · Lincoln, NE · 2025
General operations
$60,000
Westside Foundation · Omaha, NE · 2025
Cal bentz natatorium
$31,349
Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society · Omaha, NE · 2025
General operations
$20.6M
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc Dba Cure Blindness Project · Norwich, VT · 2024
Surgeries & equipment
$10.1M
Orbis · New York, NY · 2024
Treatment & prevention of blindness
$2.7M
Westside Foundation · Omaha, NE · 2024
Impact excellence campaign
$2,028
Grand Foundation · Winter Park, CO · 2024
Spencer nelson fund winter park ski competition center
$66,426
Gift of Sight · Elkhorn, NE · 2023
General operations
$15,869
Himalayan Cataract Project · Waterbury, VT · 2023
General operations
$15,500
Eye Tumor Research Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$15,500
Cedars-Sinai · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operations
$10,333
Pauli Murray Center · Durham, NC · 2023
General operations
$5,167
Wills Eye Hospital Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
General operations
$67,681
Gift of Sight · Elkhorn, NE · 2022
General operations
$10,348
Eye Tumor Research Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General operations
$10,348
Cedars-Sinai · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operations
$10,348
Pauli Murray Center · Durham, NC · 2022
General operations
$5,593
Wills Eye Hospital · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
General operations

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.