· Public charity
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 141 grants below total $22,142,633 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,367,983 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,225,350 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $5.1M
- $250k+25 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- CPCENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +87% · 88% of their budget
- PHPROJECT HARMONY6× · 2017–2023 · $4.3M · revenue +117%
- SHSIOUXLAND HUMAN INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP6× · 2019–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HFHOUSING FOUNDATION FOR SARPY COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $750k
- SNSOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL INCone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +23%
- RVREGION V SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $327k
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.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
Partnering with individuals and families to encourage economic stability to gain independence through community-based solutions.
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.
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)…
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Early childhood development.
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.
To promote and coordinate economic development, education, and quality of life through strengthened communication in north central nebraska.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
146 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. 146 of the 295 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Nebraska Children & Families Foundation 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.