· Public charity
Nebraska Recycling Council
Education of and assistance with waste reduction, recycling, and pollution prevention opportunities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMART SOILS | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $25,000 |
| CITY OF OMAHA | $23,100 |
| HEARTLAND DISPOSAL | $22,679 |
| KEEP CASS COUNTY BEAUTIFUL | $21,997 |
| MIDDLE NIOBRARA NRD | $20,000 |
| LOUP CENTRAL LANDFILL | $16,440 |
| CITY OF BENKLEMAN | $15,761 |
| CURTIS MCCABE DBA MILLIRON | $14,000 |
| CITY OF NELIGH | $13,559 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,339 |
| KEEPING CHADRON BEAUTIFUL | $11,180 |
| WESTERN RESOURCES GROUP | $3,302 |
| SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,712 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCITY OF BENKLEMAN2× · 2024–2025 · $31k
- COCITY OF OMAHA - DEPARTMENT OF PARKS RECREATION AND PUBLIC PROPERTY2× · 2024–2025 · $29k
- KCKEEP CHADRON BEAUTIFUL2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -13%
- COCITY OF HARTINGTONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- COCITY OF TEKAMAHone grant, 2024 · $24k
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.
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.
To raise the funds necessary to support the services provided by goodwill industries of greater nebraska, inc.
To improve the quality of life for all individuals by providing skills training and helping people find jobs.
Goodwill retail services, inc. ("goodwill retail") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit corporation…
Goodwill industries of northeast indiana, inc. empowers and prepares people for independence through training, personal growth and work.
Goodwill industries of n.c. pa, inc. provides social and vocational rehabilitation, training, and educational programs for people with disabilities and other disadvantaging conditions through the operation of retail stores, job centers,…
To provide opportunities for vocational training, job placement assistance, and the developement of independent living skills for people with disabilities or other barriers to employment.
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
Willing workers employed and community resources maximized.
To provide the community with a low cost place to shop for everyday needs, such as clothing, household goods & furniture in a loving christian environment to help people who are in difficult situations start over again, place for people to…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP CASS COUNTY BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds KEEP CHADRON BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE FAIR 1868 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESOURCES GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nebraska Recycling Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nebraska Recycling Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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