Nebraska · Public charity
Heartland United Way Inc
To improve people's lives and create possibilities in hall, hamilton, howard & merrick counties. Heartland united way brings together diverse community stakeholders, partners, and contributors to change community conditions to improve people's lives.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $818k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Heartland United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $818k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $823k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $739k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $645k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $711k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $498k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $560k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $562k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Harbor Inc | $859,865 | 9 | 11% |
| Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc | $666,303 | 9 | 17% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Nebraska | $589,586 | 9 | 53% |
| 322 Overland Trails Council Boy Scouts of America | $577,652 | 9 | 10% |
| Third City Community Clinc Inc | $518,987 | 9 | 22% |
| Heartland Casa | $438,946 | 9 | 43% |
| Multicultural Coalition | $356,900 | 9 | 29% |
| Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc | $334,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Central Community College | $327,340 | 9 | n/a |
| Willow Rising Inc | $213,724 | 9 | 9% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Heartland United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Cooper Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Heartland United Way Inc
- How much does Heartland United Way Inc give?
- Heartland United Way Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $817,626, out of $1,383,294 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Heartland United Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Health (20%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are Heartland United Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Harbor Inc ($860k), Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc ($666k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Nebraska ($590k).
- Does Heartland United Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Heartland United Way Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Grand Island Community Foundation, Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati, The Sherwood Foundation.
- Where is Heartland United Way Inc based?
- Heartland United Way Inc is based in NE.
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