· Public charity
Nac Development Corporation
To stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of fine and performing arts throughout the state.
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 38 grants below total $471,360 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $567,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,940 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 $10k19 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEBRASKANS FOR THE ARTS | $52,250 |
| FILM STREAMS | $33,576 |
| NEBRASKANS FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION INC | $28,969 |
| FRIENDS OF LIED | $18,996 |
| OMAHA THEATER COMPANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | $15,496 |
| THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC | $14,685 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $14,435 |
| OPERA OMAHA | $14,122 |
| OMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $13,871 |
| LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $13,808 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $13,777 |
| BALLET NEBRASKA | $13,652 |
| BEMIS CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $13,620 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $13,589 |
| OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $13,401 |
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- OPOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +120%
- OTOMAHA THEATER COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +10%
- JAJOSLYN ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- JCJOHNNY CARSON COMEDY FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -65%
- KPKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $17k
- LALINCOLN ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Theatre west summer repertory enhances the region with quality theatrical experiences for participants and audiences, using to the utmost, the resources of regional citizens.
To present a variety of high quality arts programs and exhibits in Omaha for the general public to enjoy and appreciate.
Promote live theater in bellvue nebraska
Support of the arts
To present diverse, high-quality programs that provide entertaining, artistic, educational and social experiences that enrich our community.
Furtherance of artistic endeavors that promote Nebraska's culture.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
Creating community by providing access to performing arts education and experiences.
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
The Nebraska Crossroads Music Festivals mission is to highlight and celebrate Nebraskas rich cultural heritage through creative and conscientious musical programming and workshops.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Barn Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Whyarts Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 68 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 NEBRASKANS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FILM STREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OMAHA THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds KANEKO ↗
- Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Norfolk Arts Center ↗
- Who funds OPERA OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds LUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds EL MUSEO LATINO ↗
- Who funds Blue Barn Theatre ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MINDEN OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT M MERRYMAN PERFORMING ART CE ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE 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: Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Nebraska Humanities Council · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Nebraska Community Foundation · Mid-America Arts Alliance · Union Pacific 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 Nac Development Corporation 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.
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