· Public charity
Heartland United Way Inc
To improve people's lives and create possibilities in hall, hamilton, howard & merrick counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $817,626 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,383,294 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $565,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $576k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE HARBOR | $106,200 |
| CENTRAL NE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM | $83,060 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $75,712 |
| THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINIC | $72,800 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $67,760 |
| HEARTLAND CASA | $67,200 |
| ADULT BASIC EDUCATION | $52,640 |
| MULTICULTURAL COALITION | $50,400 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL | $39,200 |
| FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $33,600 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES | $28,000 |
| YMCA | $28,000 |
| WILLOW RISING | $27,400 |
| TEAMMATES OF GRAND ISLAND | $17,920 |
| MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $17,290 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHHOPE HARBOR INC9× · 2017–2025 · $860k · revenue +49%
- CNCENTRAL NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTIONS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $666k · revenue +5%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +206% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPone grant, 2021 · $8k
- GIGRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue ×15
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nueces county childrens advocacy center is organized to provide a safe environment for sexual and physical child abuse investigations. there is a comprehensive program in order to make investigations and interviews less traumatic.
The nebraska casa association partners with local casa programs to recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
To prevent, treat, and reduce the trauma of the investigative process for child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.
To provide a safe caring place to evaluate any child who may have been abused
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
To provide a neutral, child-friendly agency community that facilitates a multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, detection, investigation, and treatment of child abuse.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
The primary service that the cac provides is a safe, child-friendly location for interviewing of children and coordination of referral programs when an allegation of sexual abuse and/or severe physical abuse has occurred.
To provide comprehensive services to victims of child abuse.
Advocacy and care of physically and sexually abused children in lasalle county. we work with the court system in determining the best placement for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds 322 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THIRD CITY COMMUNITY CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CASA ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW RISING INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF GRAND ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GRAND ISLAND NE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Heartland United Way Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.