Skip to content

· Private foundation

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$75,000
ANGELS AMONG US$15,000
COMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS$10,000
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND$10,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $10k → 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 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
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
2
Nebraska Cancer Coalition

Mission: connecting people and resources to strengthen cancer prevention, detection and quality of life in nebraska. vision: conquering cancer together.

—
3
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.

—
4
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
5
Leading Age Nebraska

The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.

Housing & Shelter
6
Heartland Community Health Network Inc

Heartland community health network exists to support and strengthen its federally qualified health center members through collaboration, information-sharing and integration of administrative, fiscal and clinical operations.

Health
7
Nebraska Coalition for Life Saving Cures

The nebraska coalition for life saving cures promotes, supports and advocates for research to advance our quality of life and our economy.

Science & Tech
8
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
9
Altru Health System

Altru health system is a community of over 3,400 health professionals and support staff, and we've been committed to caring for our region for more than 130 years. serving over 230,000 residents in northeast north dakota and northwest…

Health
10
Civic Nebraska

The organization's purpose is to create a more modern and robust democracy for all nebraskans through youth service learning, civic health initiatives, and nonpartisan voting rights advocacy.

Civil Rights
11
Nebraska Hospice and Palliative Care Association

Improve the quality of life for all nebraskans who have chronic conditions or are near the end of life and to support the various communities who care for them.

—
12
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Susan Laflesche Picotte Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

6 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $275,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 · HealthCOMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $10,000 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$275,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$10,000Other$10,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER OMAHA: $10,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 6 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska’s filings →

    More from the funding graph