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Nebraska Community Foundation
The NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
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 409 grants below total $16,696,853 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,789,751 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,092,898 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 $10k90 grants · $628k
- $10k–50k259 grants · $5.2M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+15 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENDER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC | $956,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $767,694 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $575,000 |
| JOSLYN ART MUSEUM | $560,000 |
| CHEYENNE COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION | $505,000 |
| HERITAGE SERVICES | $500,000 |
| OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST | $500,000 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA | $394,051 |
| WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION | $383,868 |
| YMCA OF MCCOOK | $345,960 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $338,636 |
| GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $305,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART | $260,000 |
| PENDER PUBLIC SCHOOL | $257,481 |
| RALSTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
537 repeat relationships — 304 still active in FY2025, 233 since wound down; 94 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- TWTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +194% · 48% of their budget
- HSHERITAGE SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +24% · 47% of their budget
- CUCreighton University4× · 2019–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- OCOTOE COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- RCRALSTON COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1.2M
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
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.
Creating and improving housing to open doors for economic opportunities.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
The mission of oedc is to implement economic development projects, housing, and community revitalization programs that create jobs, business ownership opportunities and other economic benefits for area residents.
To assist in enabling builders to serve first-time homebuyers through creative use of all available resources, public and private.
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
Support for community colleges
To promote credit unions in nebraska
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Nebraska Community Action Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Seward Arts Council. 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 31 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
535 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. 535 of the 1,033 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 PENDER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RALSTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOONE BEGINNINGS EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MARIE UKENA CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MCCOOK ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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: The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Hawks Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family 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 Community 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.