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Kearney Area Community Foundation

Provide support for various programs and charitable activities for communities in the area of buffalo county, nebraska

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.8MEducation$1.3MHealth$933kArts & Culture$844kHuman Services$712kPublic Benefit$710kReligion$679kPhilanthropy$365kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 79 grants below total $2,659,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,037,821 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,378,209 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
$21,100
Median grant
4
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION$151,004
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE$146,124
FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$120,583
NET-FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION$100,000
CITY OF KEARNEY$84,000
CROSSROADS CENTER INC$78,659
UNK$75,000
GARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES$70,450
UNK$70,000
KEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER$67,232
CRANE RIVER THEATER$64,385
CITY OF KEARNEY$63,620
VILLAGE OF SHELTON$59,598
KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA$58,780
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART$56,972
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $692k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 9%KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION: $151k → 11%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $10k → 13%SAFE CENTER: $33k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $98k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $75k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $59k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $45k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $42k → 13%HOT MEALS USA: $33k → 13%COMPASS: $30k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 13%COMPASS: $19k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $16k → 13%KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA: $13k → 13%KEARNEY TEEN REACH ADVENTURE CAMP: $10k → 13%KEARNEY TEEN REACH ADVENTURE CAMP: $8k → 13%RAVENNA SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 48 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
33

Total granted

$6.6M
$661k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

56%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $976k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BC
    BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $669k · revenue +7% · 56% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $315k · revenue +39%
  • CC
    CROSSROADS CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $163k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • NG
    NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $155k · revenue -62%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • CO
    CITY OF GIBBON
    one grant, 2023 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce

Local area chamber of commerce

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2
Kenosha Community Foundation

We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.

Philanthropy
3
Kearney Family Ymca Foundation

To provide the kearney family ymca with a stable financial base to carry out it's mission today, while also allowing for growth in the future.

Recreation & Sports
4
Bryan Hospital Kearney Foundation

Bryan hospital kearney foundation is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of, and to support and further the activities and purposes, of bryan hospital kearney.

Health
5
Kearney Enrichment Council

The Kearney Enrichment Council operates programs focusing on youth enrichment, senior adults, downtown revitalization, and emergency support. In KECs Spark Program, over 40 youth, participated in culinary art, technology and engineering…

Human Services
6
Kearney Visitors Bureau

Promotes growth of tourism and hospitality to the kearney area.

Community Improvement
7
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

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.

Community Improvement
8
Kansas Newspaper Foundation

To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.

Community Improvement
9
Kearney Food Pantry Inc

To provide food and other needs for people living in kearney mo

Food & Nutrition
10
Nebraska Medical Foundation

To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.

Health
11
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
12
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Kearney Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 33. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%5%<5yr9%7%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr13%18%20–35yr27%38%35–55yr21%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%2%<5yr9%13%5–10yr16%8%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr27%45%35–55yr21%18%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/110
the rest of the field
7%
187/2,718

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 114 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
38/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

City of Kearney — $1,855,144 · OtherCity of KearneyBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $482,541 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $421,470 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH+69 more — $2,209,788 · Other+69 moreBUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC — $669,378 · HealthBUFFALO COUN…HELPCARE CLINIC — $75,168 · HealthHELPCARE CLI…GARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $70,450 · HealthGARDEN COUNT…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…+3 more — $65,885 · Health+3 moreKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA — $370,798 · Human ServicesKEARNEY FAM…KIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC — $151,004 · Human ServicesKIDS AND DR…KEARNEY BUFFALO COUNTY CASA — $75,200 · Human ServicesKEARNEY BUF…KEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER — $54,100 · Human ServicesKEARNEY JUB…COMPASS — $49,013 · Human ServicesCOMPASSFamily Advocacy Network — $40,940 · Human ServicesHOT MEALS USA — $33,425 · Human ServicesTHE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $33,392 · Human Services+4 more — $53,992 · Human Services+4 moreFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $275,583 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $146,124 · PhilanthropyKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $128,420 · PhilanthropyNCCF PROPERTY INVESTMENTS INC — $51,336 · Philanthropy+2 more — $25,657 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $96,972 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $91,471 · Arts & CultureWORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION — $49,204 · Arts & CultureROBERT M MERRYMAN PERFORMING ART CE — $44,512 · Arts & CultureKEARNEY AREA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $38,803 · Arts & CultureGREAT PLATTE RIVER ROAD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $30,534 · Arts & CultureClassic Car Collection — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGIBBON HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATION — $18,802 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $21,330 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $314,766 · EducationCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationCROSSROADS CENTER INC — $162,559 · Housing & ShelterKEARNEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $41,245 · Housing & ShelterKEARNEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $18,619 · Housing & ShelterKearney Community Sustainable Housing — $18,444 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,968,943Health$930,881Human Services$861,864Philanthropy$627,120Arts & Culture$511,628Education$339,766Housing & Shelter$240,867

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC — $669,378 over 5y, 56% of budgetKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA — $370,798 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $314,766 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $275,583 over 3y, 43% of budgetCROSSROADS CENTER INC — $162,559 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS FOUNDATION — $155,081 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC — $151,004 over 1y, 45% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $146,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $128,420 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC — $126,822 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART — $96,972 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBUFFALO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $91,471 over 4y, 15% of budgetKEARNEY BUFFALO COUNTY CASA — $75,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetHELPCARE CLINIC — $75,168 over 4y, 15% of budgetKEARNEY AREA ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $72,718 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetGARDEN COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $70,450 over 1y, 65% of budgetKEARNEY CATHOLIC HS FOUNDATION — $68,273 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $66,821 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC — $59,502 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $57,428 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKEARNEY JUBILEE CENTER — $54,100 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetNCCF PROPERTY INVESTMENTS INC — $51,336 over 2y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD THEATRE FOUNDATION — $49,204 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOMPASS — $49,013 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE KEARNEY AREA INC — $47,260 over 1y, 13% of budgetROBERT M MERRYMAN PERFORMING ART CE — $44,512 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYANNEY HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $43,442 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKEARNEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $41,245 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFamily Advocacy Network — $40,940 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LINCOLN INC — $40,104 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetKEARNEY AREA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $38,803 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR — $34,653 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOT MEALS USA — $33,425 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $33,392 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGREAT PLATTE RIVER ROAD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $30,534 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLLAGE CENTER — $28,917 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetClassic Car Collection — $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKEARNEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $24,920 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS — $24,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION 52 BUFFALO CTY POST — $24,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetRotary International Kearney Rotary — $24,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTODD BECKER FOUNDATION — $21,103 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGIBBON HERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATION — $18,802 over 1y, 32% of budgetKEARNEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $18,619 over 3y, 5.5% of budget
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.

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.

Cope Ron & Carol Foun…Hirschfeld Family Fou…Arram Family Foundati…Nebraska Community Fo…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…The Bokenkamp Family …LeRoy Thom Jean Thom …Jerry & Edith Marlatt…Nebraska Humanities C…Nac Development Corpo…
Cope Ron & Carol Foundation TrustNE59.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cope Ron & Carol Foundation Trust · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Arram Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Bokenkamp Family Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · Jerry & Edith Marlatt Family Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Nac Development Corporation

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 Kearney Area Community Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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