· Public charity
Mid-Plains United Way Inc
Provide an opportunity for our community to get involved and help local people by mobilizing the caring powers of our community
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $112,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,000 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $27,650 |
| NEBRASKA YOUTH CENTER | $17,650 |
| NORTH PLATTE SR CENTER | $16,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE ADVOCACY | $15,000 |
| Guardians for the Children | $10,000 |
| THE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION UTILITIES | $6,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY CASA | $6,000 |
| L2 FOR KIDS | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +33%
- CCCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +32%
- NPNorth Platte Opportunity Cent9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +414% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCUSTER COUNTY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $8k
- GOGUARDIANS OF THE CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $6k
- HSHERSHEY SR CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 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.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
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.
Advocacy program for state ward children
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
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)…
Southeast Nebraska Casa recruits, trains and supports community volunteers who advocate forabused and neglected children in the Seward, Saline, Thayer, Jefferson and Gage County Court System
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.
Providing advanced life service level support for nine local communities in lincoln county including damariscotta, newcastle, bremen, bristol, south bristol, nobleboro, jefferson and edgecomb
To prevent, treat, and reduce the trauma of the investigative process for child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.
Provide training and services for child abuse response.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Hope Child Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Platte Kids Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH PLATTE KIDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds North Platte Opportunity Cent ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds L2 FOR KIDS INC A NEBRASKA NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
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: Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation 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 Mid-Plains 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.