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Fremont Area Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life in the fremont area by connecting donor interest with community needs and serving as a leader and catalyst in the development of solutions.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$3.9MHuman Services$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.0MPhilanthropy$849kPublic Benefit$590kArts & Culture$530kCommunity Improvement$468kRecreation & Sports$308kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $2,624,199, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,781,072 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,873 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $626k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $911k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,010,546
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK$179,000
DODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$132,225
FREMONT FAMILY YMCA$108,500
MIDLAND UNIVERSITY$95,759
LIFEHOUSE$83,489
FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$56,267
CITY OF FREMONT$55,820
DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS$50,000
PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION$50,000
DODGE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION$50,000
CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSIST$50,000
LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$48,400
NORTH BEND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$41,960
FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION$31,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy: $25k → 6%Nursing Heart Inc: $5k → 14%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPUETIC RIDING: $11k → 6%NURSING HEART: $10k → 14%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPUETIC RIDING: $10k → 6%ROOTS TO WINGS: $180k → 7%ROOTS TO WINGS: $50k → 7%Roots to Wings: $33k → 7%Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $5k → 13%ROOTS TO WINGS: $15k → 7%FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF LINC: $15k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $179k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $152k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $55k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASK: $29k → 12%CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSIST: $50k → 13%FitGirl Inc: $12k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $67k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $61k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $10k → 12%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska Inc: $10k → 12%Fremont Family YMCA: $280k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $185k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $109k → 11%FREMONT FAMILY YMCA: $90k → 11%Fremont Family YMCA: $68k → 11%Fremont Family YMCA: $64k → 11%Uniquely Yours Stability Support Org: $15k → 11%HEARTLAND WORKERS CENTER: $10k → 11%Uniquely Yours Stability Support Org: $8k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
IA
OH
CO
NE
KS
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 68 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
71

Total granted

$8.4M
$932k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • FP
    FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +763% · 77% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $706k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $620k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FI
    FREMONT ICE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • UF
    UEHLING FIRE DISTRICT 6
    one grant, 2023 · $59k
  • TF
    TEAMMATES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -42%
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy
3
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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4
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
5
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
6
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
7
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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8
Nebraska Vocational Agricultural Foundation

Nonprofit corporation which provides leadership development and enhancement through educational programs and opportunities for community involvement.

Youth Development
9
One Omaha

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

Community Improvement
10
Nebraska Bankers Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to provide support for education, training and career development for banking and related programs. in addition, the foundation will support federally insured depository institutions and the communities in which…

Employment
11
Nebraska Ffa Foundation

The mission of the nebraska ffa foundation is to enhance quality education/ffa programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students.

Youth Development
12
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation

The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area United Way; the most unlike its peers is Fremont Downtown Development Group. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 160 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/87
Grantees still filing
47/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Fremont: $479,386 · OtherCity of FremontFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $210,395 · OtherFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLSARCHBISHOP BERGAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF FREMONT: $201,881 · OtherARCHBISHOP BERGAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO…FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $191,014 · Other+108 more: $2,697,747 · Other+108 moreFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,250,706 · EducationFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL …MIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $274,724 · EducationMIDLAND UNIVERSITYGREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $225,000 · EducationGREATER FREMONT DEVELO…GREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT FNTN: $119,929 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $109,768 · EducationWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Education+9 more: $220,319 · Education+9 moreFREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,754,468 · PhilanthropyFREMONT AREA COMMUN…FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY: $150,082 · PhilanthropyFREMONT AREA UNITED…+5 more: $83,757 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $705,978 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIA…LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $563,881 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SER…ROOTS TO WINGS INC: $278,000 · Human ServicesROOTS TO WINGS INCFREMONT YMCA FOUNDATION: $234,017 · Human ServicesFREMONT YMCA FOUNDA…+10 more: $196,364 · Human Services+10 moreCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $619,506 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC: $185,880 · Housing & ShelterFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC: $182,758 · Arts & CultureTHE DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS INC: $175,185 · Arts & CultureFORT ATKINSON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRESPECT2: $17,200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureDODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $182,225 · AnimalsOLD POOR FARM: $40,000 · AnimalsNalas New Life Rescue Inc: $10,000 · Animals12 HILLS DOG RESCUE: $10,000 · Animals
Other$3,780,423Education$2,285,446Philanthropy$1,988,307Human Services$1,978,240Housing & Shelter$805,386Arts & Culture$414,143Animals$242,225

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,754,468 over 7y, 20% of budgetFREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,250,706 over 6y, 77% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $705,978 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE: $619,506 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $563,881 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetROOTS TO WINGS INC: $278,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $274,724 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFREMONT YMCA FOUNDATION: $234,017 over 3y, 22% of budgetGREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $225,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $191,014 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC: $185,880 over 5y, 30% of budgetFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC: $182,758 over 7y, 16% of budgetDODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $182,225 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS INC: $175,185 over 5y, 45% of budgetFREMONT AREA UNITED WAY: $150,082 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT FNTN: $119,929 over 5y, 52% of budgetFREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $111,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $109,768 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREMONT ICE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCASA OF THE MIDLANDS: $90,270 over 4y, 20% of budgetFREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION: $89,971 over 2y, 89% of budgetWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $78,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC: $77,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $51,568 over 2y, 13% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $46,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $45,476 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $40,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOLD POOR FARM: $40,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCRISIS CENTER FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $35,268 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFREMONT AVENUE OF FLAGS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTEAMMATES FOUNDATION: $33,691 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOLINE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $29,806 over 1y, 12% of budgetTEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,755 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCALVIN CREST CAMP CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER INC: $26,473 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEFFERSON HOUSE ADVISORY COMMITTEE: $24,287 over 2y, 34% of budgetUNIQUELY YOURS STABILITY SUPPORT INC: $23,049 over 2y, 23% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,744 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAUTISM CENTER OF NEBRASKA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRESPECT2: $17,200 over 1y, 4.9% 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.

  • Who funds FREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOTS TO WINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT YMCA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PLATTE VALLEY EAST INC ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DODGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE DIGG SITE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FREMONT DEVELOPMENT FNTN ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT ICE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT AREA VETERANS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KEENE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗

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 Foundati…Debby Durham Family F…The Lozier FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…Nebraska Community Fo…The Hawks FoundationLeland J & Dorothy H …Fremont Area United W…Immanuel Community Vi…First Interstate Banc…Suzanne & Walter Scot…
The Sherwood FoundationNE39.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Debby Durham Family Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Fremont Area United Way · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem 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 Fremont Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fremont Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 160 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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