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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Human Services$4.5MHealth$3.4MYouth Development$2.1MEducation$639kEmployment$104k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $264k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$61,281
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $61k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $28k → 12%CHILD SAVING INTITUTE: $1.1M → 12%CHILD SAVINGS INSTITUTE: $773k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $535k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $315k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $468k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $260k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $447k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $237k → 12%CHILDREN'S RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $203k → 12%HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $115k → 12%NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $153k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 8 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$10M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
0%

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +34%
  • HF
    HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $928k · revenue +53%
  • NA
    NEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $289k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • OE
    OMAHA EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $148k · revenue 0%
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
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
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.

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3
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
4
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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5
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
6
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
7
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network

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…

Human Services
8
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

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…

Health
9
National Association of Children's Hospitals Inc

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…

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10
University Nursery Schools Inc

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…

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11
The Visiting Nurse Association of Pottawattamie County Iowa

Delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.

—
12
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educare of Omaha Inc; 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.
04the 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 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $1,875,359 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INCNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $1,603,083 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INCHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $927,655 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICECONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $202,688 · Human Services+2 more: $88,851 · Human ServicesTHE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS: $2,269,000 · OtherTHE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDSCHILD SAVINGS INSTITUTE INC CO: $2,007,570 · OtherCHILD SAVINGS INSTITUTE INC CO+2 more: $168,607 · OtherTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $975,697 · HealthTHE VISITI…EDUCARE OF OMAHA INC: $327,815 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $288,982 · Youth DevelopmentNorfolk Family Coalition Inc: $11,179 · Philanthropy
Human Services$4,697,636Other$4,445,177Health$975,697Education$337,815Youth Development$288,982Philanthropy$11,179

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDLANDS: $2,269,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $1,875,359 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $1,603,083 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTHE VISITING NURSE HEALTH SERVICES: $975,697 over 2y, 15% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $927,655 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEDUCARE OF OMAHA INC: $327,815 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $288,982 over 3y, 15% of budgetCONNECTED ROOTS CARE CENTER: $202,688 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOMAHA EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC: $147,932 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $27,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $20,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorfolk Family Coalition Inc: $11,179 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Early Childhood Servi…Leland J & Dorothy H …The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Buffett Early Childho…Todd and Mary Heistan…Immanuel Community Vi…Building Healthy Futu…Kim FoundationCl Werner FoundationSuzanne & Walter Scot…Mutual of Omaha Found…
Early Childhood ServicesNE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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