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Nebraska Donor Alliance

The NEBRASKA DONOR ALLIANCE is a progressive donor collaborative that works to create a more inclusive and racially just democracy.

$841k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.6MHealth$210kCivil Rights$155kEnvironment$140kEmployment$100kArts & Culture$100kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $725k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEBRASKANS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA$200,000
NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE$175,000
HOLLAND CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT$100,000
NEBRASKANS FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT$100,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE$100,000
NEBRASKA VOTES$50,000
BLACK IN ACTION COLLECTIVE$40,000
NEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND$35,000
EMPOWERING FAMILIES$15,000
BELLWEATHER INITIATIVE$15,000
CIVIC NEBRASKA$11,000
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLACK IN ACTION COLLECTIVE: $40k → 12%SECOND HOUSE COLLABORATIVE: $400k → 13%EMPOWERING FAMILIES: $15k → 16%DEFEND THE BLUE DOT PAC: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY CHANGE: $100k → 20%YOUR NEBRASKA: $75k → 12%NEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND: $265k → 13%WORKING AMERICA: $100k → 14%SHE'S ELECTABLE NEBRASKA: $63k → 12%NEBRASKA VOTES: $245k → 13%BELLWEATHER INITIATIVE: $15k → 12%NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $175k → 13%HOLLAND CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT: $100k → 12%CIVIC NEBRASKA: $75k → 13%NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $50k → 13%NEBRASKA VOTES: $50k → 13%NEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND: $35k → 13%CIVIC NEBRASKA: $11k → 13%ONE HOUSE STRATEGIES LLC: $10k → 13%NEBRASKANS FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT: $100k → 13%NEBRASKANS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA: $200k → 13%NEBRASKANS FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA: $10k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Nebraska Donor Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 0%.

Nebraska Donor Alliancelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NA
    NEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue -58%
  • NV
    NEBRASKA VOTES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $295k · 44% of their budget
  • NC
    NEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $225k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HOUSE COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • BA
    BOLD ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +73%
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
Raise the Wage Nebraska

Advocacy of policies to support Nebraskans.

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2
Nebraska Corn Growers Association

To promote corn and corn products

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3
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
4
Nebraska Conservation Voters

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

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5
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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6
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
7
Aclu Nebraska

For over 50 years in nebraska, the aclu has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional and individual rights of all people. with a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters,…

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8
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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9
Nebraska Coalition for Patient Safety

Improve healthcare by collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about patient safety; and to ensure compliance with the patient safety improvement act.

Public Benefit
10
North Dakota News Cooperative
Arts & Culture
11
North Omaha Collective

To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.

Human Services
12
Voices for Children in Nebraska

Voices for children in nebraska is the independent voice building pathways to opportunity for all children and families through research, policy and community engagement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Your Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Black in Action Collective. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
4/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HOUSE COLLABORATIVE: $400,000 · Civil RightsSECOND HOUSE COLLABORATIVENEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND: $300,000 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUNDNEBRASKA VOTES: $295,000 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA VOTESNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $225,000 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLECIVIC NEBRASKA: $86,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC NEBRASKAYOUR NEBRASKA: $75,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $55,000 · Civil RightsNMM: $210,000 · OtherNMMBOLD ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 · OtherBOLD ALLIANCE INCWORKING AMERICA: $100,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICANebraskans for Better Governance: $100,000 · OtherNebraskans for Better GovernanceSHE'S ELECTABLE NEBRASKA: $77,500 · OtherSHE'S ELECTABLE NEBRASKADEFEND THE BLUE DOT PAC: $40,000 · OtherDEFEND THE BLUE DOT PAC+1 more: $10,000 · OtherHOLLAND CHILDRENS MOVEMENT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $100,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$1,436,000Other$662,500Arts & Culture$100,000Community Improvement$100,000

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 budgetSECOND HOUSE COLLABORATIVE: $400,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED ACTION FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetNEBRASKA VOTES: $295,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetNEBRASKA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE: $225,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNMM: $210,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOLD ALLIANCE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $86,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYOUR NEBRASKA: $75,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetEMPOWERING FAMILIES of Nebraska Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAll Hands on Deck Net…Tides FoundationNew Venture Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund

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 Donor Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nebraska Donor Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nebraska Donor Alliance?

    Find your warmest path to Nebraska Donor Alliance 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 17 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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