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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$2.4MReligion$1.6MPublic Benefit$677kRecreation & Sports$631kHealth$596kHuman Services$417kHousing & Shelter$320kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 77 grants below total $1,993,067, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,657,746 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $664,679 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k48 grants · $956k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $548k
  • $250k+1 grant · $335k
$13,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCHOK AND AWE INC: $58k → 8%GOTHENBURG IMPACT CENTER: $12k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $26k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $23k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $22k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $19k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $16k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $15k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $14k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $13k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $13k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $12k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%HOPE ESPERANZA: $8k → 12%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 12%HOPE ESPERANZA: $7k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 12%HOPE ESPERANZA: $7k → 12%RAPE & DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $6k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
IA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 87 repeat orgs$868k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
37

Total granted

$9.5M
$581k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

45%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NP
    NORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +127%
  • LC
    LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $479k · revenue +46% · 46% of their budget
  • NP
    NORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -68%
  • SH
    SENECA HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MH
    MULLEN HOSPITAL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation
Human Services
3
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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4
Nebraska Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
5
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

—
6
North Platte Area Chamber of Commerce & Developmen

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

Community Improvement
7
Nebraska Coalition for Patient Safety

Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.

Public Benefit
8
Nebraska Hospitality Association

To promote the restaurant industry

—
9
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
10
Nebraska Rural Health Association

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…

Health
11
Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition

Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.

Community Improvement
12
Nebraska Civic Engagement Table

The nebraska civic engagement table works with nonprofits to increase voting and build an engaged nebraska.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF NORTH PLATTE: $1,028,930 · OtherCITY OF NORTH PLATTETHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: $263,700 · OtherESU #16: $244,357 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY (LAKE MALONEY TRAIL): $240,490 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $223,065 · Other+107 more: $4,170,830 · Other+107 moreNORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC: $1,019,717 · EducationNORTH PLATTE CATHO…LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $479,289 · EducationLINCOLN COUNTY HIS…CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationCENTRAL CATHOLIC D…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $81,000 · Education+2 more: $47,195 · EducationCREATIVITY UNLIMITED ARTS COUNCIL: $918,624 · Arts & CultureCREATIVITY UN…NORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC: $265,859 · Arts & CultureNORTH PLATTE …MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $44,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $45,802 · Arts & CultureGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $275,948 · HealthCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC: $157,403 · HealthNORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA HOSPITAL CORP: $56,476 · Health+4 more: $39,784 · HealthNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC: $174,504 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons: $154,632 · PhilanthropyHOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC: $60,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $42,500 · PhilanthropyRAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $122,710 · Human ServicesBIRTHLINE: $73,788 · Human ServicesSCHOK AND AWE INC: $57,900 · Human ServicesHOPE- ESPERANZA: $22,520 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,630 · Human ServicesGOTHENBURG IMPACT CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $117,802 · Food & NutritionLogan County Agricultural Society: $8,600 · Food & NutritionLINCOLN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $8,079 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,171,372Education$1,752,201Arts & Culture$1,274,285Health$529,611Philanthropy$431,636Human Services$301,548Food & Nutrition$134,481

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH PLATTE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ENDOWMENT TRUST INC: $1,019,717 over 8y, 16% of budgetCREATIVITY UNLIMITED ARTS COUNCIL: $918,624 over 9y, 59% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $479,289 over 9y, 46% of budgetGREAT PLAINS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $275,948 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetNORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC: $265,859 over 9y, 13% of budgetNORTH PLATTE COMM COLLEGE FOUND INC: $174,504 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC: $157,403 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetGreater Horizons: $154,632 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $122,710 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $117,802 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetDeborahs Legacy Inc: $98,303 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHLINE: $73,788 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $72,123 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $71,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC: $60,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetNORTH PLATTE NEBRASKA HOSPITAL CORP: $56,476 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $56,294 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetTRI-STATE BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION: $51,525 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPAWS-ITIVE PARTNERS HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,162 over 6y, 19% of budgetGOTHENBURG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUND BECKY JOBMAN: $50,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetNebraska High School Rodeo Association: $45,194 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $44,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMID-PLAINS UNITED WAY INC: $43,223 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $37,195 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMcPherson County Rural Fire Department: $35,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNORTH PLATTE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $31,663 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMARANATHA BIBLE CAMP INC: $28,845 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY CASA: $27,710 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNORTH PLATTE AREA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $27,146 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $27,082 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNP ICE INC: $22,695 over 2y, 15% of budgetHOPE- ESPERANZA: $22,520 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $22,032 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTNR NORTH PLATTE: $20,081 over 3y, 12% of budgetHANDS IN ACTION CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWILD WEST ARENA FOUNDATION: $18,656 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetD & N Event Center Inc: $18,450 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKEEP NORTH PLATTE & LINCOLN COUNTY BEAUTIFUL: $17,965 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTH PLATTE YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $13,900 over 2y, 10% of budgetWESTERN SKY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER: $13,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH CENTER: $12,735 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOTHENBURG IMPACT CENTER: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMYBRIDGE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $11,395 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Nebraska Community Fo…North Platte Nebraska…Nebraska Children & F…First Interstate Banc…The Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Lincoln Community Fou…Mid-Plains United Way…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Kearney Area Communit…Abel FoundationHirschfeld Family Fou…
Nebraska Community FoundationNE33.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 143 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.

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