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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

$125k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
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 2023.

Human Services$357kCrime & Legal$144kYouth Development$71kHealth$61kEducation$28kHousing & Shelter$27kPhilanthropy$8k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $112,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,000 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%L2 FOR KIDS: $10k → 12%L2 FOR KIDS: $10k → 12%RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE: $23k → 12%L2 FOR KIDS: $6k → 12%RAPE and DOMESTIC ABUSE: $21k → 12%L2 FOR KIDS: $4k → 12%L2 FOR KIDS: $3k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 12%RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE: $7k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 12%RAPE and DOMESTIC ABUSE: $180 → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 12 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$666k
$20k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthCrime & 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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +33%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +32%
  • NP
    North Platte Opportunity Cent
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +414% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CUSTER COUNTY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • GO
    GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • HS
    HERSHEY SR CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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 Casa Association

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
3
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
4
Lasalle County Childrens Advocacy Center

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Casa of South Central Nebraska

Advocacy program for state ward children

Human Services
6
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
7
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
8
Southeast Nebraska Casa

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

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service Inc

Providing advanced life service level support for nine local communities in lincoln county including damariscotta, newcastle, bremen, bristol, south bristol, nobleboro, jefferson and edgecomb

Health
11
Rusk County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

To prevent, treat, and reduce the trauma of the investigative process for child abuse victims and their non-offending family members.

Crime & Legal
12
Children's Advocacy Centers of North Dakota

Provide training and services for child abuse response.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridge of Hope Child Advocacy Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $124,450 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBRNORTH PLATTE KIDS ACADEMY: $74,700 · OtherNORTH PLATTE KIDS ACADEMYNEBRASKA YOUTH CENTER: $57,100 · OtherNEBRASKA YOUTH CENTERTHE SALVATION ARMY: $49,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+5 more: $40,202 · Other+5 moreCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC: $92,075 · HealthCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF …North Platte Opportunity Cent: $66,531 · HealthNorth Platte Opportunity …RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $51,780 · Human ServicesRAPE AND DOMESTI…L2 FOR KIDS INC A NEBRASKA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $32,650 · Human ServicesL2 FOR KIDS INC …LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $13,900 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY …BRIDGE OF HOPE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $62,525 · Crime & LegalBRIDGE OF HOPE …LINCOLN COUNTY CASA: $30,100 · Crime & LegalLINCOLN COUNTY …
Other$345,952Health$158,606Human Services$98,330Crime & Legal$92,625

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $124,450 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF LINCOLN CO INC: $92,075 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH PLATTE KIDS ACADEMY: $74,700 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetNorth Platte Opportunity Cent: $66,531 over 9y, 28% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $62,525 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH CENTER: $57,100 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetRAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM: $51,780 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetL2 FOR KIDS INC A NEBRASKA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $32,650 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY CASA: $30,100 over 8y, 12% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $13,900 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Mid-Nebraska Community FoundationNE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mid-Plains United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid-Plains United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    5report 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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $80k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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