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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 42-6559796

Filkins Family Foundation

A private foundation in Omaha, NE. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 5 grants and $34.6 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $34,647,213

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $113,334,822

  • Tax year 2024

    $33,439,585

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $137,551,654

  • Tax year 2023

    $128,795

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $418,437

  • Tax year 2022

    $104,318

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $440,273

  • Tax year 2021

    $78,277

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $463,586

  • Tax year 2020

    $117,836

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $483,306

  • Tax year 2019

    $103,558

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $493,891

  • Tax year 2018

    $99,350

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $519,432

Grants paid in 2025

5 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Himalayan Cataract Project Inc DBA Cure Blindness ProjectNorwich, VT

    Surgeries & equipment

    $20,702,516
  2. OrbisNew York, NY

    Treatment & prevention of blindness

    $12,790,068
  3. Nancy LF Davis Family FoundationLincoln, NE

    General operations

    $1,063,280
  4. Westside FoundationOmaha, NE

    Cal bentz natatorium

    $60,000
  5. Metropolitan Omaha Medical SocietyOmaha, NE

    General operations

    $31,349

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. International aid2 grants $33,492,58497% of the total
  2. Mental health1 grant $1,063,2803% of the total
  3. Education1 grant $60,000<1% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Vermont1 grant $20,702,516
  2. New York1 grant $12,790,068
  3. Nebraska3 grants $1,154,629

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • John W Filkins SrCHAIRMAN/TREASURER Hours 1.5Pay $0
  • Nancy DavisTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Cathryn AbernathyTRUSTEE Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • John W Filkins JrSECRETARY Hours 0.5Pay $0

The return

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