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Greater Grand Island Community Foundation

Empowering people to turn their passion into purpose by creating legacies that strengthen the future of the communites we serve.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$456k
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 2024.

Education$3.4MCommunity Improvement$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MReligion$1.0MArts & Culture$927kPublic Benefit$385kAnimals$324kHealth$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $1,806,285, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,509,178 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $702,893 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 $10k27 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $812k
  • $250k+1 grant · $456k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$455,807
GRAND ISLAND PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT$231,692
OLSSON$199,195
THE ALFORD GROUP INC$146,296
JEM EXTERIORS$123,522
CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$61,000
SHERMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC$50,000
LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED$43,769
J & M DISPLAYS$40,000
GRAND ISLAND CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$38,500
SURE SOUND AND LIGHTING INC$25,000
RIVERSIDE GOLF CLUB$18,773
SHERMAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$16,707
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA$15,500
LITCHFIELD RURAL FIRE & AMBULANCE DISTRICT$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $6k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INC: $6k → 12%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $7k → 11%HOPE HARBOR: $46k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $19k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $17k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $9k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $8k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $6k → 12%HOPE HARBOR: $6k → 12%BOYS TOWN SHELTER-GRAND ISLAND: $5k → 12%YWCA: $5k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $12k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA: $10k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $7k → 12%CHRISTMAS CHEER: $5k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $5k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 57 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
40

Total granted

$10M
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $669k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.2M · revenue ×31
  • GG
    GROW GRAND ISLAND INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $959k · revenue +675%
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $731k · revenue ×15 · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • OS
    OREGON SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • SO
    START OVER ROVER
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue -20%
  • GI
    GRAND ISLAND AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -4%
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
Central Nebraska Growth Foundation

To engage in economic development activities and to engage in other activities and programs to benefit and support the grand island area economic development corporation or perform or carry out the functions or purposes of the corporation…

Community Improvement
2
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
3
Central Nebraska Community Action Partnership Inc

Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.

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4
North Central Development Center Inc

To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.

Community Improvement
5
Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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6
Valley County Health System Foundat

The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.

Health
7
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
8
The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…

Education
9
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
10
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
11
United Way of Nebraska City Inc

United way distributes collections to civil and charitable organizations in the geographical area.

Philanthropy
12
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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

73 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. 73 of the 119 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
53/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,204,607 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $202,845 · EducationCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATI…+8 more: $376,369 · Education+8 moreGRAND ISLAND PARKS AND RECREATION D: $396,438 · OtherGRAND ISLAND PARKS AND RECREATION DCHANCERY OFFICE OF DIOCESE OF GRAND ISLAND: $377,550 · OtherCHANCERY OFFICE OF DIOCESE OF GRAND I…LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD: $250,500 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNODOLSSON: $199,195 · OtherMISSION MATTERS: $177,127 · OtherTHE ALFORD GROUP INC: $146,296 · OtherMULTICULTURAL COALITION: $139,940 · Other+80 more: $2,129,218 · Other+80 moreHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $1,204,152 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNI…GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $76,425 · PhilanthropyGREATER GRAND…GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $46,276 · Philanthropy+1 more: $24,875 · PhilanthropyGROW GRAND ISLAND INC: $958,704 · Community ImprovementGROW GRAND …CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $148,255 · Community ImprovementCAIRO COMMU…SHERMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $60,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $35,554 · Community ImprovementGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $731,062 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $41,250 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $238,868 · AnimalsSTART OVER ROVER: $29,000 · AnimalsHOPE HARBOR INC: $109,758 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS CHEER: $65,462 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $16,000 · Human Services+5 more: $28,050 · Human Services
Education$3,783,821Other$3,816,264Philanthropy$1,351,728Community Improvement$1,202,513Arts & Culture$772,312Animals$267,868Human Services$219,270

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 budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $1,204,152 over 8y, 13% of budgetGROW GRAND ISLAND INC: $958,704 over 2y, 12% of budgetGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $731,062 over 4y, 51% of budgetCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $238,868 over 4y, 11% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $202,845 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $148,255 over 8y, 18% of budgetMULTICULTURAL COALITION: $139,940 over 4y, 23% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $109,758 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $92,101 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC: $89,791 over 3y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $87,798 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $78,130 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $76,425 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCENTURA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $74,375 over 5y, 40% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $65,730 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER: $65,462 over 7y, 21% of budgetSHERMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetWILLOW RISING INC: $53,430 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $50,700 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC: $49,320 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetGRACE FOUNDATION INC: $46,276 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $44,445 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC: $39,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $37,328 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT HUNGER: $35,554 over 3y, 12% of budgetPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION OF GRAND ISLAND NE INC: $33,500 over 3y, 96% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $31,792 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTART OVER ROVER: $29,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $24,875 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GRAND ISLAND NE: $24,510 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHALL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $23,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTRI-CITIES SPORTS COMPLEX DBA PINNACLE BANK SPORTS COMPLEX: $16,752 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHEARTLAND CASA: $16,510 over 1y, 11% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION: $15,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWHITECLAY MAKERSPACE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGrand Island Regional Medical Center Inc: $14,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC: $13,250 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLILY HAVEN: $13,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTIONS INC: $12,716 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $12,650 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGRAND ISLAND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $11,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GRAND FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 22% 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 HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds GROW GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAIRO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY CENTENNIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTURA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER ↗
  • Who funds SHERMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLOW RISING INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗

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.

Edgar & Frances Reyno…Sn Bud and Gloria Wol…Heartland United Way …The Sherwood Foundati…Taylor Vern & Esther …Nebraska Community Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Mdm FoundationKaufmann-Cummings Fou…Claussen E & M Charit…Virgil Eihusen Founda…
Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation IncNE41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Heartland United Way Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mdm Foundation · Kaufmann-Cummings Foundation C/0 Richard Rabe · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Virgil Eihusen 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 Greater Grand Island Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Grand Island 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
    26report 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 119 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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