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Nebraska Children & Families Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
141
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$46MHuman Services$41MHealth$15MPhilanthropy$14MCommunity Improvement$9.5MYouth Development$5.3MHousing & Shelter$4.8MCrime & Legal$2.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 141 grants below total $22,142,633, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,367,983 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,225,350 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $5.1M
  • $250k+25 grants · $15M
$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES$3,680,275
UNITE FOR LITERACY$2,621,405
BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$933,784
BRIDGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$698,133
COLUMBUS AREA UNITED WAY$690,048
FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY$596,141
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA$452,972
SIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP$450,746
LIFT UP SARPY$424,723
KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$380,477
BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY$373,559
GERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS$354,794
LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA$353,362
PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP$348,848
NORFOLK FAMILY COALITION$335,575
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132M · 164 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

164 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
94

Total granted

$132M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

52%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +61% · 88% of their budget
  • PH
    PROJECT HARMONY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $4.3M · revenue +117%
  • SH
    SIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOUSING FOUNDATION FOR SARPY COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $750k
  • SN
    SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +23%
  • RV
    REGION V SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $327k
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.

03Its 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
Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education
2
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
3
Central Nebraska Community Action Partnership Inc

Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.

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4
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
5
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
6
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
7
Lincoln Total Community Action Inc

Early childhood development.

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8
Nebraska Family Support Network

To provide support and advocacy to families of children. build confidence in parents by providing the necessary tools for appropriate decisions and actions. informing parents of their rights and to assist in problem resolution.

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9
North Central Development Center Inc

To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.

Community Improvement
10
Holland Children's Institute
Civil Rights
11
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
12
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership; the most unlike its peers is Cedar River Rascals Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

146 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. 146 of the 295 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.

39
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/146
Grantees still filing
86/146
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $16,791,588 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAUNITE FOR LITERACY: $2,621,405 · OtherHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $2,541,705 · OtherNEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE: $2,502,551 · OtherKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,497,410 · OtherFAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES: $2,578,611 · Other+132 more: $36,763,226 · Other+132 moreCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $21,145,232 · Human ServicesCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERV…PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,742,524 · Human ServicesPANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INCSIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP: $3,202,766 · Human ServicesSIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PAR…THE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $1,668,378 · Human Services+24 more: $7,705,793 · Human Services+24 moreFREMONT AREA UNITED WAY: $4,644,255 · PhilanthropyFREMONT AREA…UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY: $2,895,549 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…COLUMBUS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $2,706,212 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS ARE…Norfolk Family Coalition Inc: $2,412,356 · PhilanthropyNorfolk Fami…UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC: $1,723,338 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $968,440 · PhilanthropyLincoln Comm…+5 more: $665,312 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HARMONY: $4,271,680 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $1,899,137 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA ALLIANCE OF CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERS: $494,716 · Crime & LegalBUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $2,578,242 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,065,922 · HealthCENTER FOR HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT: $223,341 · Health+1 more: $140,000 · HealthLift Up Sarpy County: $2,771,606 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1,347,244 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION: $499,968 · Youth DevelopmentAINSWORTH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $295,976 · Youth Development+1 more: $50,730 · Youth DevelopmentSCHOOL DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1,108,567 · EducationStudent1: $948,488 · EducationTHE BRIDGE FAMILY RESOURCE CONNECTOR NETWORK (FKA BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES): $824,060 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC: $789,016 · EducationBuilding Blocks Early Childhood and Family Development Center: $250,000 · EducationCollective For Youth: $239,108 · EducationST PAUL EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $232,160 · EducationBOONE BEGINNINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $204,466 · Education+3 more: $163,571 · Education
Other$66,296,496Human Services$37,464,693Philanthropy$16,015,462Crime & Legal$6,665,533Health$5,007,505Youth Development$4,965,524Education$4,759,436

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES: $21,145,232 over 8y, 88% of budgetFREMONT AREA UNITED WAY: $4,644,255 over 8y, 56% of budgetPROJECT HARMONY: $4,271,680 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetPANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC: $3,742,524 over 7y, 80% of budgetSIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP: $3,202,766 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY: $2,895,549 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetLift Up Sarpy County: $2,771,606 over 7y, 75% of budgetCOLUMBUS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $2,706,212 over 4y, 43% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES: $2,578,611 over 6y, 17% of budgetBUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $2,578,242 over 7y, 58% of budgetHALL COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $2,541,705 over 7y, 31% of budgetNEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE: $2,502,551 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetNorfolk Family Coalition Inc: $2,412,356 over 7y, 98% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,065,922 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $1,899,137 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC: $1,723,338 over 5y, 44% of budgetTHE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS: $1,668,378 over 6y, 57% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES: $1,617,884 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetFAMILIES 1ST PARTNERSHIP: $1,480,716 over 6y, 90% of budgetNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1,347,244 over 8y, 41% of budgetBLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,233,404 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTHE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS: $1,202,821 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $1,108,567 over 6y, 54% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $968,440 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetStudent1: $948,488 over 4y, 30% of budgetYORK COUNTY HEALTH COALITION: $865,548 over 6y, 91% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY RESOURCE CONNECTOR NETWORK (FKA BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES): $824,060 over 2y, 62% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $806,640 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC: $789,016 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCORNHUSKER UNITED WAY INC: $616,850 over 4y, 86% of budgetGOTHENBURG EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COALITION: $562,300 over 7y, 41% of budgetNEBRASKA CITY AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $538,111 over 5y, 82% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR FAMILIES: $507,103 over 6y, 72% of budgetNEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION: $499,968 over 6y, 13% of budgetNEBRASKA ALLIANCE OF CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERS: $494,716 over 5y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $441,738 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDAWSON COUNTY FAMILY PARTNERS: $405,995 over 3y, 62% of budgetNORFOLK AREA UNITED WAY INC: $378,663 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $335,944 over 6y, 14% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $335,438 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGAGE AREA GROWTH ENTERPRISE: $318,430 over 2y, 58% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $318,315 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC: $316,884 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHRESHOLD COC: $306,028 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHERMAN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $302,472 over 2y, 75% of budgetAINSWORTH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $295,976 over 2y, 12% of budgetHO-CHUNK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $283,615 over 4y, 12% of budgetWOOD RIVER VISION 2020: $269,439 over 7y, 13% 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 CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Lift Up Sarpy County ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HALL COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Norfolk Family Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES 1ST PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Student1 ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY HEALTH COALITION ↗

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…Nebraska Community Fo…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Lozier FoundationUnited Way of the Mid…Foundation for Educat…Lincoln Community Fou…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Mutual of Omaha Found…Weitz Family Foundati…William and Ruth Scot…Suzanne & Walter Scot…
The Sherwood FoundationNE102.8× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sherwood Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Foundation for Educational Funding II · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott 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 Children & Families Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nebraska Children & Families Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    56report 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 295 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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