· Public charity
Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative
The NEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE harnesses the potential of providers to deliver high-quality early learning opportunities through access to business resources, innovative partnerships, and educational support.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of NEBRASKA EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLABORATIVE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $264k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD SAVING INTITUTE | $1,102,354 |
| VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES | $275,697 |
| CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER INC | $202,688 |
| BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $61,281 |
| BOYS TOWN | $27,570 |
| NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION | $20,675 |
| NORFOLK FAMILY COALITION | $11,179 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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
- CSCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +34%
- HFHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE4× · 2019–2022 · $928k · revenue +53%
- NANEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC3× · 2019–2021 · $289k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- OEOMAHA EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INCone grant, 2019 · $148k · revenue 0%
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.
The nebraska early childhood collaborative harnesses the potential of providers to deliver high-quality early learning opportunities through access to business resources, innovative partnerships, and educational support.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand…
Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…
Nach supports children's hospitals by addressing public policy issues that affect their ability to fulfill their missions to serve children and their families. nach fulfills its mission and vision through federal advocacy, collaboration…
The mission of the university nursery school is to prepare the children in our community for a successful and fulfilling future throughout their education and beyond. we strive daily to provide loving care, as well as high quality and…
Delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educare of Omaha Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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
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 THE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Norfolk Family Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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: Early Childhood Services · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Buffett Early Childhood Fund · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Building Healthy Futures · Kim Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Mutual of Omaha 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 Early Childhood Collaborative 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.