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Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$104kEnvironment$102kArts & Culture$29kAnimals$26kCommunity Improvement$18kPhilanthropy$17kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN$9,340
KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL$5,000
SPALDING ACADEMY$4,303
ASIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER$4,185
CIVIC NEBRASKA$3,505
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CITY OF WILBER PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS: $3k → 9%PHELPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 10%ESU 5: $5k → 10%SPALDING ACADEMY: $4k → 11%PLATTE RIVER WHOOPING CRANE MNTC TR: $5k → 12%TEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%NE WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $3k → 12%LOUP BASIN RCD: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA RECYCLING COUNCIL: $12k → 13%NJAS: $10k → 13%AUDUBON NE: $3k → 13%GEOGRAPHIC ED OF NE: $3k → 13%UPPER LOUP NRD: $6k → 14%BETTER PONCA FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%ESU 5: $3k → 10%PLATTE RIVER WHOOPING CRANE MAINT T: $3k → 12%NE EXTENSION IN BURT COUNTY: $3k → 12%MIDDLE NIOBRARA NRD: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY CROPS: $5k → 13%NJAS: $5k → 13%AUDUBON NEBRASKA: $3k → 13%CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS: $3k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA: $6k → 12%NEBRASKA RECYCLING COUNCIL: $5k → 13%AUDUBON NE: $3k → 13%NE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA: $3k → 12%NE RECYCLING COUNCIL: $3k → 13%CENTRAL PLATTE NRD: $5k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA: $3k → 12%NE RECYCLING COUNCIL: $3k → 13%KEARNEY VISITOR'S BUREAU: $3k → 13%RAINWATER BASIN JOINT VENTURE: $3k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA: $3k → 12%NE RECYCLING COUNCIL: $3k → 13%GROUNDWATER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SKUTT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 12%KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL: $5k → 12%GREEN BELLEVUE: $3k → 6%KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL: $5k → 12%OMAHA CHILDRENS ZOO: $3k → 12%NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL: $3k → 12%OMAHA COUNCIL BLUFFS MAPA: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $9k → 13%CIVIC NEBRASKA: $4k → 13%ASIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER: $4k → 13%WACHISKA AUDUBON OF SOUTHEAST NE: $3k → 13%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 25 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
87

Total granted

$227k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%
+71%

Still filing today

28%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • KO
    KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +430%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +150%
  • CN
    CIVIC NEBRASKA
    3× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +98%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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 Game and Parks Foundation

The organization is focused on the future of parks, wildlife management and conservation of nebraska.

Environment
2
Nebraska Conservation Voters

Protect nebraska's natural legacy by educating voters, advocating for sound policies, and electing conservation champions.

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3
The Nebraska Land Trust Inc

To foster the protection of agricultural, historical and natural resources on land in nebraska through education, partnering and permanent conservation.

Environment
4
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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5
Conservation Nebraska

Protect nebraska's natural legacy by educating the public, supporting communities, and increasing civic engagement.

Environment
6
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
7
Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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8
Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition

Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.

Community Improvement
9
Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation

The federation educates and supports current and future farmers and ranchers in nebraska.

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10
The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…

Education
11
Nebraska Communities United

We are dedicated to protecting water, land and air resources, economic well-being, and a high rural quality of life free from multinational corporate acquisition and factory farming intrusion. NCU supports regenerative methods of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kearney Visitors Bureau. 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

21 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. 21 of the 121 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NE RECYCLING COUNCIL: $16,840 · OtherNE RECYCLING COUNCILNJAS: $15,425 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $15,334 · OtherASIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER: $12,826 · OtherCENTRAL PLATTE NRD: $12,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · Other+102 more: $221,853 · Other+102 moreKEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC: $24,669 · EnvironmentKEEP OMAH…Prairie Pines Partners: $7,009 · EnvironmentPrairie P…THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $2,701 · EnvironmentTHE IZAAK…WACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,393 · EnvironmentNEBRASKA RECYCLING COUNCIL: $16,809 · EducationBellevue University: $1,735 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCIVIC NEBRASKA: $9,430 · Civil RightsKEARNEY VISITORS BUREAU: $6,300 · Community ImprovementBETTER PONCA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$306,428Environment$35,772Education$19,044Housing & Shelter$15,000Philanthropy$14,000Civil Rights$9,430Community Improvement$9,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC: $24,669 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNEBRASKA RECYCLING COUNCIL: $16,809 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $9,430 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPrairie Pines Partners: $7,009 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CROPS: $6,488 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKEARNEY VISITORS BUREAU: $6,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER PONCA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPhelps County Historical Society: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA: $2,701 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE FAIR BOARD: $1,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $1,735 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,393 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCreighton University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 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 KEEP OMAHA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA RECYCLING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds TEKAMAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Prairie Pines Partners ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CROPS ↗
  • Who funds KEARNEY VISITORS BUREAU ↗
  • Who funds THE GROUNDWATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds BETTER PONCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Phelps County Historical Society ↗

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.

The Sherwood Foundati…The Ethel S Abbott Ch…Cooper FoundationLincoln Community Fou…The Holland FoundationPeter Kiewit Foundati…The Lozier FoundationJohn K & Lynne D Boye…Annette and Paul Smit…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…Nebraska Children & F…
The Sherwood FoundationNE21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · The Ethel S Abbott Charitable Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Holland Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · John K & Lynne D Boyer Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families 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 Nebraska Academy of Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nebraska Academy of Sciences. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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 121 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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