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Nac Development Corporation

To stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of fine and performing arts throughout the state.

$567k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$3.7MEducation$272kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$12kEmployment$7k
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $471,360, the rows itemized in this filing. The $567,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,940 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 $10k19 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$10,719
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $6k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $14k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 56 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
10

Total granted

$4.0M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • OP
    OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +120%
  • OT
    OMAHA THEATER COMPANY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +10%
  • JA
    JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOHNNY CARSON COMEDY FESTIVAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -65%
  • KP
    KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $17k
  • LA
    LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Seward Arts Council
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2
Theatre West Summer Repertory

Theatre west summer repertory enhances the region with quality theatrical experiences for participants and audiences, using to the utmost, the resources of regional citizens.

Arts & Culture
3
Omaha Summer Arts Festival Inc

To present a variety of high quality arts programs and exhibits in Omaha for the general public to enjoy and appreciate.

Arts & Culture
4
Bellevue Little Theatre

Promote live theater in bellvue nebraska

—
5
Meadowlark Arts Council Inc

Support of the arts

Arts & Culture
6
Lincoln County Community Theater & Orchestra

To present diverse, high-quality programs that provide entertaining, artistic, educational and social experiences that enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
7
Southeast Nebraska Cultural Center

Furtherance of artistic endeavors that promote Nebraska's culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Rubendall Foundation Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
9
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
10
Northern Prairie Performing Arts

Creating community by providing access to performing arts education and experiences.

—
11
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council

Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
Lincoln Crossroads Festival

The Nebraska Crossroads Music Festivals mission is to highlight and celebrate Nebraskas rich cultural heritage through creative and conscientious musical programming and workshops.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Barn Theatre; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 68 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $150,956 · Arts & CultureOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETYOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $144,415 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $143,862 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $143,283 · Arts & CultureOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $143,229 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $141,635 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $139,796 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $138,427 · Arts & CultureKANEKO: $134,249 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $105,478 · Arts & CultureNorfolk Arts Center: $104,570 · Arts & CultureOPERA OMAHA INC: $102,413 · Arts & CultureBALLET NEBRASKA: $96,275 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $1,089,704 · Arts & Culture+25 moreNEBRASKANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $267,349 · OtherNEBRASKANS FOR THE ARTS INCFILM STREAMS INC: $199,084 · OtherFILM STREAMS INCOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $92,055 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATI…LINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $81,992 · OtherLINCOLN ARTS COUNCILCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC: $60,578 · OtherCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY I…NEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $57,750 · OtherNEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL…NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: $55,231 · OtherLINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $46,899 · OtherMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $42,266 · Other+14 more: $172,141 · Other+14 moreOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $138,617 · Community ImprovementJOHNNY CARSON COMEDY FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsRABBLE MILL: $11,904 · Recreation & SportsCOMPLETELY KIDS: $23,254 · Youth DevelopmentHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $19,781 · Human ServicesCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $6,800 · HealthPAPILLION LA VISTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,344 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,778,292Other$1,075,345Community Improvement$138,617Recreation & Sports$31,904Youth Development$23,254Human Services$19,781Health$6,800Education$5,344

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEBRASKANS FOR THE ARTS INC: $267,349 over 8y, 66% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $199,084 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $150,956 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA THEATER COMPANY: $144,415 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $143,862 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LIED LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS- NEBRASKA: $143,283 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetOMAHA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $143,229 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLINCOLN ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $141,635 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $139,796 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetOMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $138,617 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $138,427 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetKANEKO: $134,249 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $105,478 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNorfolk Arts Center: $104,570 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $102,413 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET NEBRASKA: $96,275 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $92,055 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $91,418 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNEBRASKA ART ASSOCIATION: $86,966 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM: $86,186 over 8y, 40% of budgetLINCOLN COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $85,916 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetLINCOLN ARTS COUNCIL: $81,992 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetWEST NEBRASKA ARTS CENTER: $79,050 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC: $60,578 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNEBRASKA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $57,750 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MIDWEST THEATER: $57,150 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $56,397 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $55,867 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO: $52,756 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBlue Barn Theatre: $51,035 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCARNEGIE ARTS CENTER INC: $48,790 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $47,945 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE: $45,350 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMINDEN OPERA HOUSE INC: $43,739 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetROBERT M MERRYMAN PERFORMING ART CE: $38,220 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetKEARNEY COMMUNITY THEATRE: $26,829 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNORTH PLATTE COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE INC: $25,901 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER INC: $23,953 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $23,254 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAPILLION - LAVISTA COMMUNITY THEATRE: $22,799 over 3y, 46% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $21,019 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTASSEL COORDINATION COUNCIL INC: $20,275 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJOHNNY CARSON COMEDY FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $19,781 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA AREA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $17,230 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFREMONT AREA ART ASSOCIATION INC: $14,253 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHASTINGS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $13,492 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetNebraska Jazz Orchestra Inc: $12,200 over 2y, 7.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Peter Kiewit Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…The Lozier FoundationNebraska Humanities C…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…The Holland FoundationLincoln Community Fou…Annette and Paul Smit…Nebraska Community Fo…Mid-America Arts Alli…Union Pacific Foundat…
Peter Kiewit FoundationNE64.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nac Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nac Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Nac Development Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 68 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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