How much does Collective For Youth give?

Collective For Youth reported 37 grants totaling $8,541,328 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Collective For Youth fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (62%), Human Services (16%), Civil Rights (7%).

Who are Collective For Youth's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Completely Kids ($14M), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Midlands ($9.7M), Kids Can Community Center ($6.3M).

Does Collective For Youth fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Collective For Youth?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation.

Where is Collective For Youth based?

Collective For Youth is based in NE.

Collective For Youth

Collective For Youth at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Collective For Youth

To advocate for, facilitate resources, and provide quality training for out of school time program providers.

$8.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.1M

Largest

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.

Youth Development$37MHuman Services$9.7MCivil Rights$4.0MAnimals$4.0MArts & Culture$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$682kReligion$490kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $24k
$10k–50k18 grants · $545k
$50k–250k7 grants · $691k
$250k+8 grants · $7.3M

$36,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Completely Kids	$2,059,561
Kids Can Community Center	$1,274,467
Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands	$976,748
DREAM	$691,288
YMCA of Greater Omaha	$644,269
Omahas Henry Doorly Zoo	$593,664
Urban League of Nebraska	$555,730
Civic Nebraska	$485,532
AIM Institute	$186,691
WhyArts	$123,301
Future Soccer	$105,000
Big Garden	$82,160
Tyrome Williams Fdtn Building Dream	$72,038
Young Entreprenuers of the Future	$62,050
UNO iStem	$59,883

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $19.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$59M · 43 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$59M

$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

-19%

Still filing today

88%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthCivil RightsOther

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

CK
COMPLETELY KIDS
9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +64% · 32% of their budget
KC
KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +176% · 28% of their budget
DR
DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH EDUCATION ATHLETICS AND MENTORING INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +71% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

NB
NOTHING BUT NET FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $141k · revenue -65% · 47% of their budget
TW
TYRONE WILLIAMS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $58k
TS
THE START CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSH
one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -44%

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.

One Omaha

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

Community Improvement

Elevate Omaha Inc

To create a platform to elevate youth voice and equip young people to become leaders who advocate for themselves and their peers, provide insight about youth-driven solutions, and fund possibility to pave the way to a better future.

Community Improvement

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

Mentor Nebraska

Mentor nebraska is a backbone organization that seeks to increase the number and quality of mentoring opportunities available for youth.

Education

Collective for Youth

To advocate for, facilitate resources, and provide quality training for out of school time program providers.

Education

Omaha Children's Museum

Omaha children's museum is a not-for-profit organization that provides children and families with opportunities to discover how the world works, challenge themselves, and learn through play. the mission of the museum is to engage the…

Arts & Culture

Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment

Girls Incorporated of Omaha

Girls incorporated of omaha serves girls of ages 5 through 18 with various gender specific programs designed to provide the girls with activities and experiences which meet their needs.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa

To inspire and enable all young people especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Nebraska Startup Academy

The nebraska startup academy provides guidance and mentorship to founders, investors, and the community by educating with a specialized curriculum, hosting events with industry experts, and leveraging affiliate relationships to help…

Community Improvement

Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc

To encourage, promote, supervise, and develop educational programs designed to give youths experience in industry and business by making it possible for them to learn by doing, to provide them with an opportunity to learn about the…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Whyarts Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/46

Grantees still filing

24/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$23,916,788Human Services$19,624,046Civil Rights$5,159,066Animals$3,978,388Arts & Culture$1,813,623Other$3,668,057Education$861,431

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

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 Sherwood FoundationNE72.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 Collective For Youth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Collective For Youth. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home