Funding search · EIN 476025084 · Omaha, NE

Gifford Foundation

Name: Gifford Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

64
grants reported: $284,566
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Museum of Nebraska Art4 grants · $58,515
Fontenelle Forest2 grants · $54,000
Joslyn Art Museum1 grant · $50,000
Willa Cather Foundation1 grant · $40,000
Nature Conservancy2 grants · $24,000
Washington Print Foundation4 grants · $11,000
Air Gallery3 grants · $4,200
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation4 grants · $4,000
Omega Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Center4 grants · $3,700
Mend Hunger Relief Network3 grants · $3,000

Giving over time

$70,550

2022

$62,000

2023

$65,016

2024

$87,000

2025

Grant history

All 64 reported grants, largest first.

$51,000
Museum of Nebraska Art · Kearney, NE · 2022
Unrestricted
$50,000
Joslyn Art Museum · Omaha, NE · 2025
Unrestricted
$50,000
Fontenelle Forest · Bellevue, NE · 2024
Unrestricted
$40,000
Willa Cather Foundation · Red Cloud, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$15,000
Nature Conservancy · Omaha, NE · 2025
Unrestricted
$9,000
Nature Conservancy · Omaha, NE · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,515
Museum of Nebraska Art · Kearney, NE · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,000
Washington Print Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$4,000
Fontenelle Forest · Bellevue, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,950
City Sprouts · Omaha, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,000
Quahog Bay Conservancy · Harpswell, ME · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,000
Washington Print Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,000
Washington Print Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,000
Washington Print Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,500
Fallingwater Western Pennsylvania Conservancy · Mill Run, PA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,400
Air Gallery · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,400
Air Gallery · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,400
Air Gallery · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ali Forney Center · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ama Animal Rescue · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation · Clark, NJ · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Interfaith Food Pantry of the Oranges · Short Hills, NJ · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Mend Hunger Relief Network · Maplewood, NJ · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Omega Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Center · Airville, PA · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Quahog Bay Conservancy · Harpswell, ME · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Segue Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ymca of Greater Omaha · Omaha, NE · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation · Clark, NJ · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Keshet · Northbrook, IL · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Mend Hunger Relief Network · Maplewood, NJ · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Museum of Nebraska Art · Kearney, NE · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Omega Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Center · Airville, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth · Chatham, NJ · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ymca of Greater Omaha · Omaha, NE · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation · Clark, NJ · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Film Streams · Omaha, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Keshet · Northbrook, IL · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lauritzen Garden · Omaha, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Mend Hunger Relief Network · Maplewood, NJ · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Museum of Nebraska Art · Kearney, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Omega Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Center · Airville, PA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth · Chatham, NJ · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ymca of Greater Omaha · Omaha, NE · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Community Food Bank of New Jersey · Hillside, NJ · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation · Clark, NJ · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Lauritzen Garden · Omaha, NE · 2022
Unrestricted
$900
Film Streams · Omaha, NE · 2024
Unrestricted
$885
Film Streams · Omaha, NE · 2025
Unrestricted
$700
Keshet · Northbrook, IL · 2022
Unrestricted
$700
Omega Horse Rescue & Rehabilitation Center · Airville, PA · 2022
Unrestricted
$600
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$600
Kentler International Drawing Space · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$600
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$600
Kentler International Drawing Space · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$600
Kentler International Drawing Space · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$550
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$550
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$516
Phoenix Academy · Omaha, NE · 2024
Unrestricted
$500
Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth · Chatham, NJ · 2022
Unrestricted
$400
The Trevor Project · West Hollywood, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$250
Goats of Anarchy · Annandale, NJ · 2022
Unrestricted
$250
Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary · Erie, CO · 2022
Unrestricted
$200
Save the Manatee Club · Maitland, FL · 2022
Unrestricted

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