· Community foundation
Midlands Community Foundation
To be a catalyst for lasting impact in sarpy and cass counties and to give opportunities to organizations and individuals to pursue their charitable goals.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
- $250k+1 grant · $767k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORGOOD COMMUNITY PANTRY | $767,000 |
| CITY OF BELLEVUE | $125,637 |
| PAPILLION LAVISTA SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $91,918 |
| CITY OF SPRINGFIELD | $48,862 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $40,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LOFTE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $36,619 |
| PAPILLION LAVISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SARPY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,500 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $24,000 |
| GRETNA NEIGHBORS | $23,707 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,668 |
| NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $451k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Midlands Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
90 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNeighborGood Community Pantry9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +942%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $265k · revenue +57%
- SCSARPY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2020–2023 · $245k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MFMUSCO FINANCE LLCone grant, 2017 · $183k
- PRPAPIO-MISSOURI RIVER NATURAL RESOURCES DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $105k
- COCITY OF BELLEVUEone grant, 2018 · $94k
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.
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
To promote charitable giving, community involvement and prosperity in the state of nebraska by engaging community and business leaders through charitable assistance and to bring people together and support community causes in a fun and…
How this is measured
122 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. 122 of the 255 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NeighborGood Community Pantry ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARPY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE LOFTE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARPY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PAPILLION LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Louisville Public School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAPILLION-LA VISTA TRAP TEAM ↗
- Who funds HONOR AND REMEMBER INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sarpy County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA 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.
Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Nebraska Community Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Midlands Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midlands Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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