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Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$931kHuman Services$151kFood & Nutrition$110kHousing & Shelter$96kEmployment$70kCrime & Legal$60kCommunity Improvement$54kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $355,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $373,609 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,109 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES$22,000
CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION$21,000
HEAL OMAHA$20,000
GIRL INCORPORATED OF OMAHA$20,000
HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC$20,000
MOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$20,000
CHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC$20,000
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE$20,000
JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS - NEBRASKA$20,000
CENTER FOR HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT$20,000
I BE BLACK GIRL$20,000
NEBRASKA AFGHAN COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC$20,000
COMUNIDAD MAYA PIXAN IXIM$20,000
INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $20k → 6%INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 12%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $22k → 12%FAMILY INC: $21k → 12%NEBRASKA AFGHAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $20k → 12%JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS - NEBRASKA: $20k → 12%TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $50k → 12%OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY: $50k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 3 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$1.0M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $911k · revenue +146%
  • CA
    CHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • OB
    Omaha Botanical Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TI
    TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • OB
    OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • NM
    NO MORE EMPTY POTS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
North Omaha Collective

To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.

Human Services
3
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
4
Omaha Economic Development Corporation

The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.

—
5
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

—
6
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services
7
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
8
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
Omaha ForUs Inc

Omaha forus builds intentional community and creates equitable space in service to lgbtq+ individuals and families of eastern nebraska and western iowa.

Human Services
11
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services
12
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Visions Homeless Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
12/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $911,114 · HealthCHI HEALTH FOUNDATIONCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $70,000 · HealthCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC+2 more: $40,000 · HealthTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $50,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER INC OF ME…OMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesOMAHA BRIDGES OUT …New Visions Homeless Services: $22,000 · Human ServicesNew Visions Homele…FAMILY INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY INCJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $20,000 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FOR OUR NE…MOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Human ServicesMOSAIC COMMUNITY D…HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND EQUINE T…INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesINTERCULTURAL SENI…NEBRASKA AFGHAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA AFGHAN CO…HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $20,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY S…NO MORE EMPTY POTS: $50,000 · Food & NutritionNeighborGood Community Pantry: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $33,972 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRISE ACADEMY: $40,000 · EmploymentAFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN: $20,000 · EducationAVENUE SCHOLARS IOWA: $12,500 · EducationI BE BLACK GIRL: $20,000 · Civil RightsCOMUNIDAD MAYA PIXAN IXIM: $20,000 · OtherOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $20,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $20,000 · OtherPottawattamie County Development Corporation: $14,000 · OtherOmaha Community Foundation: $10,161 · Other
Health$1,021,114Human Services$262,500Food & Nutrition$60,000Housing & Shelter$53,972Employment$40,000Education$32,500Civil Rights$20,000Other$84,161

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $911,114 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOMAHA BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNO MORE EMPTY POTS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $33,972 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY INC: $20,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA AFGHAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPottawattamie County Development Corporation: $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS IOWA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOmaha Community Foundation: $10,161 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Weitz Family Foundati…Nebraska Community Fo…United Way of the Mid…Immanuel Community Vi…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Mutual of Omaha Found…Leland J & Dorothy H …Todd and Mary Heistan…Charles E Lakin Found…Suzanne & Walter Scot…
The Lozier FoundationNE46.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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