· Community foundation
Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation
To serve charitable people and worthy causes in this region, not by running specific programs ourselves, but by supporting other non-profit organizations that do.
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 77 grants below total $1,993,067 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,657,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $664,679 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 $10k22 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $956k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $548k
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF NORTH PLATTE | $335,213 |
| NORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC ENDOW TRUST | $215,100 |
| LINCOLN CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $98,025 |
| NORTH PLATTE COMM PLAY HOUSE | $69,945 |
| SCHOK AND AWE INC | $57,900 |
| VILLAGE OF STAPLETON | $57,000 |
| VILLAGE OF MULLEN | $50,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL SERVICE UNIT 16 | $45,238 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NE FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| PRAIRIE ARTS CENTER | $40,934 |
| SALVATION ARMY - NORTH PLATTE CORP | $35,395 |
| THE CROSSING FELLOWSHIP | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $32,832 |
| SUTHERLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $32,358 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $32,000 |
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, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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
- NPNORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +127%
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $479k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
- NPNORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -68%
- SHSENECA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MCMcPherson County Rural Fire Departmentgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +56% · 40% of their budget
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.
The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
The organization endeavors to serve the community and members by attracting and recruiting new businesses and jobs, devloping cultural and economic interest, and enhancing the overall business climate of the north platte, nebrask area
Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.
To promote the restaurant industry
The NeRHA is a non-profit, grassroots, member-driven organization interested in the health of rural Nebraskans throughout the state. The NeRHA membership works together to identify health concerns of rural Nebraska and find ways to improve…
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Fur Animal Rescue. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
70 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. 70 of the 143 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 NORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVITY UNLIMITED ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Deborahs Legacy Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHLINE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
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: Nebraska Community Foundation · North Platte Nebraska Hospital Corp · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Mid-Plains United Way Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Abel Foundation · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc
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 Mid-Nebraska 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.
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.