Skip to content

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
Read the full brief
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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$818k0%
FY202419$823k5%
FY202318$739k11%
FY202217$645k0%
FY202119$711k11%
FY202016$498k0%
FY201918$560k6%
FY201817$562k6%
100% 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$1.3MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$887kCrime & Legal$835kHuman Services$668kEducation$532kCivil Rights$357kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Harbor Inc$859,865911%
Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc$666,303917%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Nebraska$589,586953%
322 Overland Trails Council Boy Scouts of America$577,652910%
Third City Community Clinc Inc$518,987922%
Heartland Casa$438,946943%
Multicultural Coalition$356,900929%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc$334,90090%
Central Community College$327,3409n/a
Willow Rising Inc$213,72499%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Heartland United Way Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Harbor Inc$859,865911%
Central Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc$666,303917%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Nebraska$589,586953%
322 Overland Trails Council Boy Scouts of America$577,652910%
Third City Community Clinc Inc$518,987922%
Heartland Casa$438,946943%
Multicultural Coalition$356,900929%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc$334,90090%
Central Community College$327,3409n/a
Willow Rising Inc$213,72499%
Literacy Council of Grand Island Inc$204,700934%
Young Men's Christian Association of Grand Island Ne$186,50092%
Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska$109,83490%
First Light Child Advocacy Center$109,200314%
American Red Cross - Central Plains$104,7538n/a
Teammates Mentoring Program$89,5207n/a
Legal Aid of Nebraska$72,70080%
Grand Island Young Women's Christian Association$58,00035%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$42,50060%
Midland Area Agency on Aging$38,29030%
Crossroads Center Inc$27,29020%
Salvation Army National Corp$8,3001n/a
Grand Island Children's Museum$5,15015%

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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope Harbor Inc: $859,865 over 9y, 11% of budgetCentral Nebraska Council on Alcoholism and Addictions Inc: $666,303 over 9y, 17% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Nebraska: $589,586 over 9y, 53% of budget322 Overland Trails Council Boy Scouts of America: $577,652 over 9y, 10% of budgetThird City Community Clinc Inc: $518,987 over 9y, 22% of budgetHeartland Casa: $438,946 over 9y, 43% of budgetMulticultural Coalition: $356,900 over 9y, 29% of budgetLutheran Family Services of Ne Inc: $334,900 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWillow Rising Inc: $213,724 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetLiteracy Council of Grand Island Inc: $204,700 over 9y, 34% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Grand Island Ne: $186,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGirl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska: $109,834 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Light Child Advocacy Center: $109,200 over 3y, 14% of budgetLegal Aid of Nebraska: $72,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Island Young Women's Christian Association: $58,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMidland Area Agency on Aging: $38,290 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCrossroads Center Inc: $27,290 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGrand Island Children's Museum: $5,150 over 1y, 5.4% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Greater Grand Island Community FoundationNE36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

Compare Heartland United Way Inc with peer funders

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.

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 23 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Heartland United Way’s filings →

More from the funding graph