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Norfolk Area United Way Inc

Norfolk area united way is committed to building a stronger, healthier, and compassionate community by uniting people and resources to develop or expand human service programs.

$329k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$964kHealth$770kYouth Development$540kFood & Nutrition$175kCrime & Legal$155kArts & Culture$52kPhilanthropy$21kReligion$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $299,041 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $329,467 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,426 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$52,000
NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA$50,000
BRIGHT HORIZONS$32,000
NORTHEAST NE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
THE ARC OF NORFOLK$25,000
MIDTOWN HEALTH CENTER$20,000
THE ZONE$20,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
NORFOLK PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION$10,000
NORFOLK ARTS CENTER$8,000
CASA OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA$7,500
CONNECTION PROJECT$7,500
TEAMMATES OF NORFOLK$7,500
SMILE$7,041
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK - ALBION$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK - ALBION: $7k → 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK - ALBION: $7k → 10%Norfolk Family YMCA: $53k → 13%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK - ALBION: $5k → 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK - ALBION: $5k → 10%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%Norfolk Family YMCA: $50k → 13%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $37k → 13%Bright Horizons: $37k → 13%Bright Horizons: $37k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $36k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $32k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $32k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $32k → 13%BRIGHT HORIZONS: $32k → 13%NORFOLK PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: $25k → 13%NORFOLK PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: $20k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 13%NORFOLK PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: $10k → 13%NORFOLK PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$2.7M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+27%

Still filing today

94%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • BH
    Bright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
    8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +94%
  • MH
    Midtown Health Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +112%
  • FR
    FAITH REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TW
    The Well NEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • NS
    NORFOLK SCHOOLS IN MALAWI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • NN
    Northeast Nebraska Red Cross
    one grant, 2017 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
2
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
3
NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc

Our mission is "Partnering to Create a Healthier Community." NorthPoint seeks to reduce health disparities, improve health outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of life for all residents of North Minneapolis

Health
4
Concord Counseling Services

Providing mental health, alcohol, and drug addiction treatment services to the residents of Franklin county as well as educational material and prevention services.

Health
5
New Horizon Care Centers Inc

New Horizon Care Center is a non-profit treatment facility for inpatient and outpatient services, including: drugs, alcohol, and gambling. The organization's mission is to honor the dignity of all persons and provide tailored, nurturing…

Health
6
North Central Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health and drug addiction services.

Health
7
Cape Counseling Services

To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.

8
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
9
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services Inc

CN Guidance & Counseling Services, a nonprofit organization, inspires and catalyzes recovery for people living with mental health and substance use conditions through innovative and person-centered integrated clinical treatment,…

Health
10
Norfolk Rescue Mission Inc

Religious/Benevolent

Philanthropy
11
Northwest Iowa Mental Health Center

Guiding INDIVIDUALS and FAMILIES towards a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Health
12
Northeast Oregon Network

Northeast Oregon Network (the Organization) is a non-profit organization established to create a healthier Oregon by reducing barriers for both residents and regional systems that support their health. The Organization fulfills its mission…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Behavioral Health Specialists Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stephanie's Miracle in Loving Equin. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA NORFOLK NEBRASKA — $403,061 · Human ServicesYMCA NORFOLK NEBRASKABright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault — $273,675 · Human ServicesBright Horizons Resources for Survivors…North Fork Area Transit Inc — $111,377 · Human ServicesNorth Fork Area Transit IncBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $92,690 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCNORFOLK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesNORFOLK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERSALVATION ARMY — $426,616 · OtherSALVATION ARMYThe Arc of Norfolk — $278,131 · OtherThe Arc of Norfolk+3 more — $24,400 · OtherMidtown Health Center — $224,010 · HealthMidtown Health CenterFAITH REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES — $199,796 · HealthFAITH REGIONAL HEALTH …BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS INC — $78,591 · HealthBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPEC…Connection Project Inc — $25,500 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthThe Zone Afterschool Program — $162,632 · Youth DevelopmentThe Zone After…TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $115,304 · Youth DevelopmentTEAMMATES MENT…TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $61,990 · Youth DevelopmentTEAMMATES MENT…CASA of Elkhorn Valley Inc — $82,572 · PhilanthropyNorfolk Arts Center — $52,250 · Arts & CultureOasis Counseling International — $24,402 · ReligionSTEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN — $18,375 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$940,803Other$729,147Health$537,897Youth Development$339,926Philanthropy$82,572Arts & Culture$52,250Religion$24,402Recreation & Sports$18,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYMCA NORFOLK NEBRASKA — $403,061 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetThe Arc of Norfolk — $278,131 over 8y, 65% of budgetBright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault — $273,675 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMidtown Health Center — $224,010 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES — $199,796 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zone Afterschool Program — $162,632 over 8y, 12% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $115,304 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Fork Area Transit Inc — $111,377 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $92,690 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCASA of Elkhorn Valley Inc — $82,572 over 8y, 19% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS INC — $78,591 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $61,990 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNORFOLK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $60,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNorfolk Arts Center — $52,250 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetConnection Project Inc — $25,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetOasis Counseling International — $24,402 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN — $18,375 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Well NE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 YMCA NORFOLK NEBRASKA
  • Who funds The Arc of Norfolk
  • Who funds Bright Horizons Resources for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
  • Who funds Midtown Health Center
  • Who funds FAITH REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES
  • Who funds The Zone Afterschool Program
  • Who funds TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM
  • Who funds North Fork Area Transit Inc
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
  • Who funds CASA of Elkhorn Valley Inc
  • Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS INC
  • Who funds TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM
  • Who funds NORFOLK SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
  • Who funds Norfolk Arts Center
  • Who funds Connection Project Inc
  • Who funds Oasis Counseling International
  • Who funds STEPHANIE'S MIRACLE IN LOVING EQUIN
  • Who funds The Well NE

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.

Johnny Carson FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnny Carson Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Norfolk Area United Way Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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